Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.
Shirley Jackson
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Shirley Jackson
Age: 48 †
Born: 1916
Born: December 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 8
Author
Journalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Shirley Hardie Jackson
Disrespectful
Memoir
Savages
Among
Children
Life
More quotes by Shirley Jackson
I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons.
Shirley Jackson
in all the world there is not someone who does not believe something.
Shirley Jackson
It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight.
Shirley Jackson
I can't help it when people are frightened, says Merricat. I always want to frighten them more.
Shirley Jackson
Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.
Shirley Jackson
Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
Shirley Jackson
Oh Constance, we are so happy.
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
Wear your boots if you wander today
Shirley Jackson
I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.
Shirley Jackson
The number of people who expected Mrs. Hutchinson to win a Bendix washer would amaze you.
Shirley Jackson
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.
Shirley Jackson
On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts.
Shirley Jackson
For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time.
Shirley Jackson
He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient he is simply not very interesting.
Shirley Jackson
All cat stories start with this statement: My mother, who was the first cat, told me this...
Shirley Jackson
February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.
Shirley Jackson
You will be wondering about that sugar bowl, I imagine, is it still in use? You are wondering, has it been cleaned? You may very well ask, was it thoroughly washed?
Shirley Jackson
All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.
Shirley Jackson
