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Shirley Jackson quotes about wonder

American Novelist December 14, 1919 – August 8, 1965

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Can't you make them stop?' I asked her that day, wondering if there was anything in this woman I could speak to, if she had ever run joyfully over grass, or had watched flowers, or known delight or love. 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
Shirley Jackson quote: "I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.''I doubt..."
I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.''I doubt if I could cook one,' said Constance. Shirley Jackson
You will be wondering about that sugar bowl, I imagine, is it still in use? You are wondering, has it been cleaned? You may very well ask, was it thoroughly washed? Shirley Jackson

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