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Journeys end in lovers meeting — Shirley Jackson

I was not allowed to prepare food, nor was I allowed to gather mushrooms... — Shirley Jackson

I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles. — Shirley Jackson

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you. — Shirley Jackson

I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are embarked upon a secret life of crime. — Shirley Jackson

She brought herself away from the disagreeably clinging thought by her usual method - imagining the sweet sharp sensation of being burned alive. — Shirley Jackson

Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals. — Shirley Jackson

Don't be so afraid all the time," she said and reached out to touch Eleanor's cheek with one finger. "We never know where our courage is coming from. — Shirley Jackson

I delight in what I fear. — Shirley Jackson

All cat stories start with this statement: My mother, who was the first cat, told me this ... — Shirley Jackson

Good morning, Jonas. You are a furred lead, I think. — Shirley Jackson

The gap between the poetry she wrote and the poetry she contained was, for Natalie, something unsolvable — Shirley Jackson

The food comes from the ground and cant' be permitted to stay there and rot; something has to be done with it. — Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Oh Constance, we are so happy. — Shirley Jackson

To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. — Shirley Jackson

That's wrong, Mrs. Winning was thinking, you mustn't ever talk about whether people like you, that's bad taste. — Shirley Jackson

Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. — Shirley Jackson

I made a rule for myself: Never think anything more than once... — Shirley Jackson

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven. — Shirley Jackson

Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of. — Shirley Jackson

Duty and conscience were, for Theodora, attributes which belonged properly to Girl Scouts. — Shirley Jackson

The least Charles could have done,' Constance said, considering seriously, 'was shoot himself through the head in the driveway. — Shirley Jackson

People like answering questions about themselves, she thought; what an odd pleasure it is. I would answer anything right now. "What — Shirley Jackson

I dined upon a bird, and radishes from the garden, and homemade plum jam. — Shirley Jackson

It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight. — Shirley Jackson

I live a mad, abandoned life, draped in a shawl and going from garret to garret. — Shirley Jackson

I am a kind of stray cat, aren't I? — Shirley Jackson

Our house was a castle, turreted and open to the sky. — Shirley Jackson

During all of dinner the singing went on upstairs, and no one said a word. — Shirley Jackson

The number of people who expected Mrs. Hutchinson to win a Bendix washer would amaze you. — Shirley Jackson

I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do. — Shirley Jackson

When shall we live if not now? — Shirley Jackson

(an early dust-flap biography called her "a practicing amateur witch, — Shirley Jackson

There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out. — Shirley Jackson

What was wrong with Mrs Blackwood doing her own cooking"
"Please" (...) "I personally preferred the arsenic". — Shirley Jackson

Why don't you grow up by yourself? — Shirley Jackson

Bow all your heads to our adored Mary Katherine. — Shirley Jackson

Wear your boots if you wander today — Shirley Jackson

What are you reading, my dear? A pretty sight, a lady with a book. — Shirley Jackson

Say Morg
you mind if I use the rest of your bath salts? There's only a little left. — Shirley Jackson

You never know what you are going to want until you see it clearly. — Shirley Jackson

When they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them. — Shirley Jackson

Why do women always look so funny alone at night? she thought. I guess you're so used to seeing them with someone. — Shirley Jackson

She wants her cup of stars." Eleanor — Shirley Jackson

Someday," she said evilly, rubbing her hands against her eyes, "I am going to get my eyes open all the time and then I will eat you and Lizzie both. — Shirley Jackson

although she shook her head. — Shirley Jackson

The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I'll happily join that list. — Victor LaValle

In delay there lies no plenty. — Shirley Jackson

I don't like the younger sister,' Theodora said. 'First she stole her sister's lover, and then she tried to steal her sister's dishes. — Shirley Jackson

Although she would sooner have given up thinking than eating, she resented being pushed into depriving herself of either. — Shirley Jackson

Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones. — Shirley Jackson

I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.'
'I doubt if I could cook one,' said Constance. — Shirley Jackson

I clear breakfast at ten o'clock. I set on lunch at one. Dinner I set on at six. It's ten o'clock. — Shirley Jackson

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain, said Lord Byron, — Shirley Jackson

Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me. — Shirley Jackson

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. — Shirley Jackson

Nothing," she said, "upsets me more than being hungry; I snarl and snap and burst into tears. — Shirley Jackson

For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time. — Shirley Jackson

Therefore it was not pride that took me into the village twice a week, or even stubbornness, but only the simple need for books and food. — Shirley Jackson

God! Whose hand was I holding? — Shirley Jackson

In the country of the story the writer is king. — Shirley Jackson

Anything you raise by the way of spirits you have to put back yourself. — Shirley Jackson

Am I walking toward something I should be running away from? — Shirley Jackson

February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer. — Shirley Jackson

With MOOCs, the real question becomes, where is human intervention important? — Shirley Ann Jackson

The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable, — A.M. Homes

In all the world there is not someone who does not believe something. — Shirley Jackson

this was a time and a land where enchantments were swiftly made and broken — Shirley Jackson

An Eleanor, she told herself triumphantly, who belongs, who is talking easily, who is sitting by the fire with her friends. — Shirley Jackson

We are all measured, good or evil, by the wrong we do to others; — Shirley Jackson

I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?'
'None,' said Mrs. Halloran. — Shirley Jackson

It's not nice to think of children growing up like mushrooms, in the dark. — Shirley Jackson

I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more. — Shirley Jackson

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children. — Shirley Jackson

Insist on your cup of stars. — Shirley Jackson

Some of the people in the village had real faces that I knew and could hate individually; Jim — Shirley Jackson

I would not forget my magic words; they were MELODY GLOUCESTER PEGASUS, but I refused to let them into my mind. — Shirley Jackson

We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame. — Shirley Jackson

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside. — Shirley Jackson

It is not possible, I frequently think, to walk down the street as fast as you can and kick yourself at the same time. — Shirley Jackson

People who are all alone have every right to be friends with one another.
("The Honeymoon Of Mrs. Smith" - Version 1) — Shirley Jackson

Merricat, said Connie, would you like to go to sleep? Down in the boneyard ten feet deep! — Shirley Jackson

...you'd think my own face would know me... — Shirley Jackson

I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have little house all by myself on the moon. — Shirley Jackson

I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons. — Shirley Jackson

Bridge is a game for the undivided intellect. — Shirley Jackson

It watches," he added suddenly. "The house. It watches every move you make. — Shirley Jackson

Fear and guilt are sisters; — Shirley Jackson

All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down. — Shirley Jackson

A pretty sight, a lady with a book. — Shirley Jackson

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls. — Shirley Jackson

I think, for instance, that no one can really love a person who is not superior in every way. — Shirley Jackson

Sister's gone to school," I said to Sally.
"Ah," said Sally. "And will she come home again? — Shirley Jackson

Why do people want to talk to each other? I mean, what are the things people always want to find out about other people? — Shirley Jackson

Remember the metallic sound and taste of all of it. And the outrage. — Shirley Jackson

My dear, how can I make you perceive that there is no danger where there is nothing but love and understanding? — Shirley Jackson

THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining. — Stephen King

They walked over to it and Brad bent down gingerly: "It's a leg all right," he said. — Shirley Jackson

I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die. — Shirley Jackson