Quotes by : Shirley Jackson

Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the....

Name?" the desk clerk said to me politely, her pencil poised."Name," I said vaguely. I remembered, and....

Anything which begins new and fresh will finally become old and silly. The educational institution is....

I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are....

I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever forgot,....

We believed optimistically that Laurie was a reformed character. I told my husband, on the last day of....

I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best....

The children around our house have a saying that everything is either true, not true, or one of Mother's....

I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.

Around the house, my head deep in a pillowcase or the oven, my eyes focused on that supernatural neatness....