I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.
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
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…
I delight in what I fear. - Shirley Jackson
I delight in what I fear.
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.
Am I walking toward something I should be running away from? - Shirley Jackson
Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?
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.
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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