"The house next door is haunted, and I am the one responsible for all publicity." Prologue, p. 3

"If we find that all our efforts have failed and someone buys the house, we shall set fire to it and burn it down." Prologue, p. 5

"We like our lives and our possessions to run smoothly. Chaos, violence, disorder, mindlessness all upset us." Part One, Chap. 1, p. 11

"But even if you don't, it's not worth moving, It's only a house." Part One, Chap. 1, p. 15

"This house was different. It commanded you, somehow, yet soothed you." Part One, Chap. 2, p. 24

"I'm glad neither of us is here during the day. You'd probably go berserk and axe-murder the entire crew." Part One, Chap. 3, p. 30

"On the seventeenth of November, when the shell was up and the interior finishing work begun, Pie fell down an unrailed flight of stairs leading into the basement of...