Shirley Jackson Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• 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.

  Shirley Jackson

  Eye, Night, Yellow

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

• It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight.

  Shirley Jackson

  Eye, Sight, Return

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.361, Macmillan

• [L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .

  Shirley Jackson

  Eye, Sea, Two

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.361, Macmillan

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