Best Shirley Jackson Quotes
- On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons. Feathers
- 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… All
- 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… Ask
- 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… Day
- Wear your boots if you wander today Boots
- A pretty sight, a lady with a book. Book
- Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a… Allow
- In the country of the story the writer is king. Country
- 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… All
- I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons. Acorns
- So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you. Hurt
- Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by… Any
- 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… All
- I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches… Across
- I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside. Creature
- 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… Been
- 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… Asked
- Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill… Alone
- 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… Brave
- No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and… Abandoned
- 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
- God! Whose hand was I holding? Funny
- We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat… Eat
- 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… Beautiful
- It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism… Alter