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“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.”

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Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American author whose dark and unsettling stories have left a lasting impact on the horror genre. Known for her psychological insights and the way she intertwines the supernatural with everyday life, Jackson's work has been widely celebrated for its originality and depth. more

“I was thinking, I could turn him into a fly and drop him into a spider's web and watch him tangled and helpless and struggling, shut into the body of a dying buzzing fly; I could wish him dead until he died.I could fasten him to a tree and keep him there until he grew into the trunk and bark grew over his mouth. if he was under the ground I could walk over him stamping my feet.”

Source: Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches

“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.”

Feels May Said Real Assuming Fondness

Author:Shirley Jackson

“I was wondering about my eyes; one of my eyes--the left--saw everything golden and yellow and orange, and the other eye saw shades of blue and grey and green; perhaps one eye was for daylight and the other was for night. If everyone in the world saw different colors from different eyes there might be a great many new colors still to be invented.”

Source: Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches

“Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children.”

Children School Teach Assumption Organized Public School School System

Author:Shirley Jackson

“If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.”

Ifs Pay Luxury Atmosphere

Book:100 Selected Stories

Source: 100 Selected Stories

“Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.”

Earth Pieces Theory Habit Silly Flying Gravitation

Book:Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)

“But how is it now? All we get is orders; and the laws go out of the state. Them legislators set up there at Austin and don't do nothing but makes laws against kerosene oil and schoolbooks being brought into the state. I reckon they was afraid some man would go home some evening after work and light up and get an education and go to work and make laws to repeal aforesaid laws.”

Men States Home Light Law Order Oil Evening Legislators Light Up Austin

Book:Sixes and Sevens: Ghost Story Collections

Source: Sixes and Sevens: Ghost Story Collections

“To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.”

Men Seems Impossible He Man Worship

Book:The Gift of the Magi and Other New York Stories: The Skylight Room, The Voice of The City, The Cop and the Anthem, A Retrieved Information, The Last Leaf, The Ransom of Red Chief, The Trimmed Lamp and more

Source: The Gift of the Magi and Other New York Stories: The Skylight Room, The Voice of The City, The Cop and the Anthem, A Retrieved Information, The Last Leaf, The Ransom of Red Chief, The Trimmed Lamp and more

“Go after what gives you goosebumps.”

Giving Goosebumps

Author:Tara Stiles

“An effort to declare the ban on contraception ‘infallible’ would have the immediate effect of focusing Catholic dissent on the doctrine of infallibility itself. . . . A storm of dissent, and even ridicule, directed at infallibility itself would ensue from such a declaration.”

Effort Effects Catholic Storm Doctrine Declaration Ridicule Dissent Bans Infallible Contraception Infallibility

Author:Rosemary Radford Ruether

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