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Shirley Jackson quotes about little

American Novelist December 14, 1919 – August 8, 1965

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Don’t do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don’t do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.” Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson
Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl. Shirley Jackson
She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent them so wantonly? I am foolish, she told herself early every summer, I am very foolish; I am grown up now and know the values of things. Nothing is ever really wasted, she believed sensibly, even one's childhood, and then each year, one summer morning, the warm wind would come down the city street where she walked and she would be touched with... Shirley Jackson
Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again Shirley Jackson
Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar. Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson quote: "I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she..."
I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside. Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson quote: "Say Morg--you mind if I use the rest of your bath salts?..."
Say Morg--you mind if I use the rest of your bath salts? There's only a little left. Shirley Jackson

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