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Shirley Jackson

  • b8378557798has quoted2 years ago
    No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality;
  • b8378557798has quoted2 years ago
    Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within
  • b8378557798has quoted2 years ago
    silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
  • Alaa Maadadihas quotedlast year
    Our house was a castle, turreted and open to the sky.
  • fanhas quoted2 years ago
    “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.”
  • fanhas quoted2 years ago
    “I wonder if Cousin Mary knows how I get even with people who don’t like me?

    This is creepy

  • fanhas quoted2 years ago
    Constance stirred, and the leaves rustled. “The way you did before?” she asked.

    It had never been spoken of between us, not once in six years.

    “Yes,” I said after a minute, “the way I did before.”

    Oh my God so Mary was the one who killed them all

  • fanhas quoted2 years ago
    Our house was a castle, turreted and open to the sky.
  • juanmanuelliehas quoted8 months ago
    I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the deathcup mushroom.
  • Sandra Michaelhas quoted7 months ago
    but I liked fairy tales and books of history
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