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Shirley Jackson quotes

American Novelist December 14, 1919 – August 8, 1965

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On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts. Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson quote: "So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt..."
So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you. 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
Shirley Jackson quote: "God! Whose hand was I holding?"
God! Whose hand was I holding? 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
All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and my colored stones, all perhaps turned to jewels by now, held together under the ground in a powerful taut web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us. Shirley Jackson
Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children.... Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson quote: "It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns,..."
It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight. Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson quote: "On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our..."
On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons. Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson quote: "A pretty sight, a lady with a book."
A pretty sight, a lady with a book. Shirley Jackson
Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway. 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
I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world. 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
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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