The Woman in Black revenge quotes

• ‘I had seen the ghost of Jennet Humfrye and she had had her revenge.’
• ‘Our baby son had been thrown clear, clear against another tree. He lay crumpled on the grass below it, dead.’
• ‘There was no expression on her face and yet I felt all over again the renewed power emanating from her, the malevolence and hatred and passionate bitterness. It pierced me through.’
• ‘Her bitterness was understandable, the wickedness that led her to take away other women's children because she had lost her own, understandable too but not forgivable.’
• ‘"You told me that night—" I took a deep breath to try and calm myself. "A child—a child in Crythin Gifford has always died.”’
• ‘There was nothing else the woman could do to me, surely, I had endured and survived.’
• ‘"In some violent or dreadful circumstance, a child has died."’
• ‘But to harm who? Was not everyone connected with that sad story now dead?’
• ‘Moreover, that the intensity of her grief and distress together with her pent-up hatred and desire for revenge permeated the air all around.’
• ‘It was one of what I can only describe… as a desperate, yearning malevolence…’