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 against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.
I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles. - Shirley Jackson
I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles.
- Shirley Jackson
I delight in what I fear. - Shirley Jackson
I delight in what I fear.
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 cann… - Shirley Jackson
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 cann…
The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls. - Shirley Jackson
The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.
So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you. - Shirley Jackson
So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.
Am I walking toward something I should be running away from? - Shirley Jackson
Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?
I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and w… - Shirley Jackson
I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and w…
I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing… - Shirley Jackson
I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing…
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 t… - Shirley Jackson
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 t…
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