Shirley-jackson Quote by Shirley Jackson Download Open image ““Eleanor felt the room rock madly, and time as she had always known time, stop.”” — Shirley Jackson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Shirley-jackson The-haunting-of-hill-house Time
“The room was so unearthly quiet, I lost all sense of time being divided into seconds. I felt that I was the only person… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“It was all beginning to run together in the back of Eleanor's mind, and the things that had probably really happened were confused with… — Jane Langton Copy Share Image
“Standing behind him until he turned his head. Lying next to him just before he woke up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“When Eleanor smiled something broke inside of me...something always did...” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“she’d find a way. She’d be brave and noble, and she’d find a way. But she wasn’t. Eleanor wasn’t any of those things. She… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Eleanor had known that for so long, she couldn’t even remember figuring it out.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“I could help her in her shop, Eleanor thought; she loves beautiful things and I would go with her to find them. We could… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“An Eleanor, she told herself triumphantly, who belongs, who is talking easily, who is sitting by the fire with her friends.” — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“She didn't want to look ahead to the days and the months and the years with him. Here, now, in this room, it was all right, but later? Again, time couldn't stop. And she saw at last that time only stopped when you were dead...Time was always moving and nothing could stay the same, everything was always changing, for better… — Robert Cormier Copy Share
“Now we are going to have a new noise, Eleanor thought, listening to the inside of her head; it is changing. The pounding had stopped, as though it had proved ineffectual, and there was now a swift movement up and down the hall, as of an animal pacing back and forth with unbelievable impatience, watching first one door and then… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share
“Eleanor was sane enough to realise that when your sexual fantasy mutates into the same person you want to stab in the heart, you… — M.J. Lawless Copy Share Image
I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more. — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“She could not remember ever being truly happy in her adult life; her years with her mother had been built up devotedly around small… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“Upstairs Margaret said abruptly, 'I suppose it starts to happen first in the suburbs,' and when Brad said, 'What starts to happen?' she said… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“The beautiful clarity of all marked outlines occurred to her--there would be a deep satisfaction in strengthening fences, for instance, going along on the… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“And we held each other in the dark hall and laughed, with the tears running down our cheeks and echoes of our laughter going… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“Why do people want to talk to each other? I mean, what are the things people always want to find out about other people?” — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“It was as though the people needed the ugliness of the village, and fed on it. The houses and the stores seemed to have… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“Eleanor—“I plan to stay up and read for a while.” “Are you still reading Pamela?” Eleanor asked the doctor. “Volume two. I have three… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer. — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“it’s quite a hazard, quite a hazard indeed, people knocking you down. Still, it’s a genuine pleasure to find one as willing as you… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“We started out making men in about the state of mind which I suppose created them in the first place -- we had run… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“Eleanor found herself unexpectedly admiring her own feet. Theodora dreamed over the fire beyond the tips of her toes, and Eleanor thought with deep… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“»Ich werde so lange im Haus herumlaufen, bis ich in zehn von neun Fällen den Ort finde, wo es was zu essen gibt.” — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
