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 there and watch it burn down. Shirley Jackson More Quotes by Shirley Jackson More Quotes From Shirley Jackson I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?''None,' said Mrs. Halloran. Shirley Jackson assuming real may For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time. Shirley Jackson mother worry giving I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons. Shirley Jackson acorns buttons suits Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long. Shirley Jackson wine night lying I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die. Shirley Jackson dies watches Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of. Shirley Jackson poor stranger fear 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 women home morning 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 holiness atmosphere house It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other hand, abstract belief is largely impossible; it is the concrete, the actuality of the cup, the candle, the sacrificial stone, which hardens belief; the statue is nothing until it cries, the philosophy is nothing until the philosopher is martyred. Shirley Jackson exotic philosophy hands 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 husband beautiful children Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals. Shirley Jackson horse moon rose [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 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 home jobs giving It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight. Shirley Jackson return eye sight The number of people who expected Mrs. Hutchinson to win a Bendix washer would amaze you. Shirley Jackson winning numbers people 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 delight flower running 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 them out. Shirley Jackson clean house long I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside. Shirley Jackson movement monsters littles 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 turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else. Shirley Jackson gossip towers house Wear your boots if you wander today Shirley Jackson wander boots today
