Awesome Literary Quotes by Shirley Jackson
Be inspired by one of my favorite writers, Shirley Jackson.
“It’s the home I’ve always dreamed of,’ Theodora said. ‘A little hideaway where I can be alone with my thoughts. Particularly if my thoughts happen to be about murder or suicide or—…”
–Shirley Jackson
“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
–Shirley Jackson
“I delight in what I fear.”
–Shirley Jackson
“On the moon we wore feathers in our hair and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.”
–Shirley Jackson
“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.”
–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 the presence of books.”
–Shirley Jackson
Check out this audio version of The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
“When shall we live if not now?”
–Shirley Jackson
“To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.”
–Shirley Jackson
“Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?”
–Shirley Jackson
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
–Shirley Jackson
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