Shirley Jackson Quotes About Ghosts

Quotes about: Ghosts

• I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

  Shirley Jackson

  Monsters, Movement, Littles

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.41, Penguin

• 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

  Horse, Cat, Moon

  Shirley Jackson (2014). “We Have Always Lived in the Castle”, p.54, Obelix Books

• I was already doing a lot of splendid research reading all the books about ghosts I could get hold of, and particularly true ghost stories - so much so that it became necessary for me to read a chapter of _Little Women_ every night before I turned out the light - and at the same time I was collecting pictures of houses, particularly odd houses, to see what I could find to make into a suitable haunted house.

  Shirley Jackson

  Book, Reading, Night

  Shirley Jackson (2013). “Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel”, p.107, Penguin

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