The Woman in Black Arthur Kipps Quotes

It was a yellow fog, a filthy, evil-smelling fog, a fog that choked and blinded, smeared and stained. Groping their way blindly across roads, men and women took their lives in their hands… (2.3)

My head reeled at the sheer and startling beauty, the wide, bare openness of it. The sense of space, the vastness of the sky above and on either side made my heart race. (5.4)

this must be the Nine Lives Causeway—this and nothing more—and saw how, when the tide came in, it would quickly be quite submerged and untraceable. (5.5)

Suddenly conscious of the cold and the extreme bleakness and eeriness of the spot and of the gathering dusk of the November afternoon… (5.23)

And yet, there was a strange fascination in looking out over the wild wide marshes, for they had an uncanny beauty, even now, in the gray twilight. There was nothing whatsoever to see for mile after mile and yet I could not take my eyes away. (5.38)

The first thing I noticed on the following morning was a change in the weather. As soon as I awoke, a little before seven, I felt that the air had a dampness in it and that it was rather cold… I could hardly see the division between land and water, water and sky… (9.30)

But when I awoke abruptly in the early hours it had increased greatly in force. The house felt like a ship at sea, battered by the gale that came roaring across the open marsh. (10.1)

Then I, too, began to feel the stickiness and the unsteadiness of the ground as it became boggier. (10.28)

I felt nothing other than curiosity, a professional interest… coupled with a mild sense of adventure. (2.6)

In fact, I was not by any means unattracted to the idea of the expedition… (2.70)

But I did not go inside. I did not want to, yet awhile. I wanted to drink in all the silence and the mysterious, shimmering beauty, to smell the strange, salt smell that was borne faintly on the wind, to listen for the slightest murmur. (5.16)

I was angry… for the emotion she had aroused in me… and the anger led at once to determination, to follow her and stop her, and then to ask some questions and receive proper replies, to get to the bottom of it all. (5.26)

But more than anything else, I needed an explanation. It is remarkable how powerful a force simple curiosity can be. (5.29)

For some obscure reason, I became angry with that door, I kicked at it and rattled the handle hard, before giving up… (6.17)

"If you mean you think I should give up on the job I've been sent here to do and turn tail and run…" (8.23)

I retrieved the bicycle… the dog ran cheerfully after me down the quiet, moonlit lane, toward the town. My spirits rose. In a strange way, I was looking forward to the morrow. (8.56)

So far I had found only one interesting-looking, slim packet of documents and letters, and I decided I would give myself the possible diversion of reading thing… (9.34)

...I thought that if I had to go over them again, if only because I had been growing more and more determined to find out what restless soul it was who wanted to cause these disturbances and why, why. If I could uncover the truth, perhaps I might in some way put an end to it all forever. (11.39)