6 quotes
There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will.
The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)
The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.
The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)
I'm getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper.
The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)
Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move-and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it!
The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)
This wallpaper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it in certain lights, and not clearly then.
The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)
You think you have mastered it [the wallpaper pattern], but just as you get well under way in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you.
The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)