Shirley Jackson Quotes
Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals.
Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children....
I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have little house all by myself on the moon.
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 it halfway.
People who are all alone have every right to be friends with one another.("The Honeymoon Of Mrs. Smith" - Version 1)
...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group
It isn't fair, it isn't right, " Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.
When they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them.
My dear, how can I make you perceive that there is no danger where there is nothing but love and understanding?
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.
I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are embarked upon a secret life of crime.
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.
I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime.
