I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.
Shirley JacksonTag: horror ghost haunted-houses
There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.
Shirley Jackson...remember the metallic sound and taste of all of it. And the outrage.
Shirley JacksonTag: the-tooth
...you’d think my own face would know me...
Shirley JacksonTag: the-tooth
Can't you make them stop?' I asked her that day, wondering if there was anything in this woman I could speak to, if she had ever run joyfully over grass, or had watched flowers, or known delight or love.
Shirley JacksonWithin, 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 JacksonTag: shirley-jackson the-haunting-of-hill-house
My dear, how can I make you perceive that there is no danger where there is nothing but love and understanding?
Shirley JacksonTag: love understanding
Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.
Shirley JacksonFear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.
Shirley JacksonNo, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.
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