Shirley Jackson Quotes - Page 3

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• For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time.

  Shirley Jackson

  Mother, Giving, Worry

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• God! Whose hand was I holding?

  Shirley Jackson

  Hands

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.113, Penguin

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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

  Running, Flower, Delight

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• I really think I shall commence chapter forty-four," he said, patting his hands together. "I shall commence, I think, with a slight exaggeration and go on from there into an outright lie. Constance, my dear?" "Yes, Uncle Julian?" "I am going to say that my wife was a beautiful woman.

  Shirley Jackson

  Beautiful, Uncles, Lying

  Shirley Jackson (2014). “We Have Always Lived in the Castle”, p.45, Obelix Books

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• He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting.

  Shirley Jackson

  Selfish, Men, Interesting

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

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

  Shirley Jackson

  Eye, Sight, Return

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.361, Macmillan

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• I was thinking, I could turn him into a fly and drop him into a spider's web and watch him tangled and helpless and struggling, shut into the body of a dying buzzing fly; I could wish him dead until he died.I could fasten him to a tree and keep him there until he grew into the trunk and bark grew over his mouth. if he was under the ground I could walk over him stamping my feet.

  Shirley Jackson

  Struggle, Thinking, Feet

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

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• I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.

  Shirley Jackson

  Hands, Two, Luck

  "We Have Always Lived in the Castle". Book by Shirley Jackson, www.elle.com. 1962.

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• The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if you have to live it with a home and a husband and children, none of whom would dream of following one another docilely.

  Shirley Jackson

  Dream, Children, Husband

  Shirley Jackson (2015). “Life Among the Savages”, p.74, Penguin

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• I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.

  Shirley Jackson

  Jobs, Home, Giving

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• She walked quickly around her one-room apartment. After more than four years in this one home she knew all its possibilities, how it could put on a sham appearance of warmth and welcome when she needed a place to hide in, how it stood over her in the night when she woke suddenly, how it could relax itself into a disagreeable unmade, badly-put-together state, mornings like this, anxious to drive her out and go back to sleep.

  Shirley Jackson

  Morning, Women, Home

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.106, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• It watches," he added suddenly. "The house. It watches every move you make.

  Shirley Jackson

  Moving, House, Watches

  Shirley Jackson (2013). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.79, Penguin

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• Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

  Shirley Jackson

  House, Heaven, Hills

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

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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

  Horse, Cat, Moon

  Shirley Jackson (2014). “We Have Always Lived in the Castle”, p.54, Obelix Books

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• Wear your boots if you wander today

  Shirley Jackson

  Boots, Today, Wander

  Shirley Jackson (2014). “We Have Always Lived in the Castle”, p.31, Obelix Books

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• Oh Constance, we are so happy.

  Shirley Jackson

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

  Shirley Jackson

  Children, Doubt, Chance

  Shirley Jackson (2014). “We Have Always Lived in the Castle”, p.109, Obelix Books

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

  Shirley Jackson

  Monsters, Movement, Littles

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.41, Penguin

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• 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

  Powerful, Jewels, Land

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

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• In ten years I will be a beautiful charming lovely lady writer without any husband or children but lots of lovers and everyone will read the books I write and want to marry me but I will never marry any of them. I will have lots of money and jewels too.

  Shirley Jackson

  Beautiful, Children, Husband

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• All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this...

  Shirley Jackson

  Mother, Cat, Stories

  Shirley Jackson (2014). “We Have Always Lived in the Castle”, p.38, Obelix Books

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• We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in the breeze and the cloud shadows passed back and forth and the trees in the distance moved.

  Shirley Jackson

  Distance, Ocean, Moving

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

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• 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

  Use, May, Sugar

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• Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad.

  Shirley Jackson

  House, Atmosphere, Holiness

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.58, Penguin

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• [L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .

  Shirley Jackson

  Eye, Sea, Two

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.361, Macmillan

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