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Journeys end in lovers meeting
— 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
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 am a kind of stray cat, aren't I?
— Shirley Jackson
Our house was a castle, turreted and open to the sky.
— Shirley Jackson
The number of people who expected Mrs. Hutchinson to win a Bendix washer would amaze you.
— 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 Morgyou 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
In all the world there is not someone who does not believe something.
— 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
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
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