Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived In The Castle Quotes

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 it.

Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.

I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.

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

I am going to put death in all their food and watch them die.

All cat stories start with the statement: 'My mother, who was the first cat, told me this, ' and I lay with Jonas listening to his stories.

When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, perhaps because he had very few ideas and had to wring each one dry.