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Top 350 Shirley Jackson Quotes (2026 Update)
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Shirley Jackson Quote: “How happy we all are, she thought, and how lucky that I came at last!”

351. “How happy we all are, she thought, and how lucky that I came at last!”

— Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson Quote: “It is almost silly to say that no one will read a story which does not interest him. Yet many writers forget it. They write a story which interests them, forgetting that the particular emotional investment they brought to the incident had never been communicated to the reader because, writing the story, they wrote down only what happened and not what was felt.”

352. “It is almost silly to say that no one will read a story which does not interest him. Yet many writers forget it. They write a story which interests them, forgetting that the particular emotional investment they brought to the incident had never been communicated to the reader because, writing the story, they wrote down only what happened and not what was felt.”

— Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson Quote: “Elizabeth watched him: this is Robbie, she was thinking, I know what he’s going to do and what he’s going to say and what tie he’s going to wear every day in the week, and for eleven years I have known these things and for eleven years I have been wondering how to say things to make him understand; and eleven years ago we sat here and held hands and he said we were going to be successful.”

353. “Elizabeth watched him: this is Robbie, she was thinking, I know what he’s going to do and what he’s going to say and what tie he’s going to wear every day in the week, and for eleven years I have known these things and for eleven years I have been wondering how to say things to make him understand; and eleven years ago we sat here and held hands and he said we were going to be successful.”

— Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson Quote: “But some of us go around hoping.”

354. “But some of us go around hoping.”

— Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson Quote: “If I am not the legal resident of the apartment you cannot evict me. You cannot evict Mrs. Tuttle, who is the legal resident of the apartment, because she is not living here. Unless you accept my check you are not going to receive any rent for the apartment at all because you cannot rent it to anyone else while I am living here because you cannot evict me so they could move in. Mrs. Tuttle will not pay the rent because she is not living here. Sincerely, Marian Griswold.”

355. “If I am not the legal resident of the apartment you cannot evict me. You cannot evict Mrs. Tuttle, who is the legal resident of the apartment, because she is not living here. Unless you accept my check you are not going to receive any rent for the apartment at all because you cannot rent it to anyone else while I am living here because you cannot evict me so they could move in. Mrs. Tuttle will not pay the rent because she is not living here. Sincerely, Marian Griswold.”

— Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson Quote: “Mr. Halloran had been crying, but this was not unusual; since he had been made to realize that he would not, now, be vouchsafed a second run at youth he cried easily and often.”

356. “Mr. Halloran had been crying, but this was not unusual; since he had been made to realize that he would not, now, be vouchsafed a second run at youth he cried easily and often.”

— Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson Quote: “No one even noticed me, she thought with reassurance, everyone who saw me has gone by long ago.”

357. “No one even noticed me, she thought with reassurance, everyone who saw me has gone by long ago.”

— Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson Quote: “Some lives, ending as Miss Fielding’s would, leave a grain of memory, like a grain of sand, in the depths of another mind, a grain of sand which is like the constant irritation under an oyster’s shell, eventually to grow with coating after coating of disguising beauty into a pearl. Sometime this memory would be pried loose, in its rounded beauty, to stand by itself as an object of delight.”

358. “Some lives, ending as Miss Fielding’s would, leave a grain of memory, like a grain of sand, in the depths of another mind, a grain of sand which is like the constant irritation under an oyster’s shell, eventually to grow with coating after coating of disguising beauty into a pearl. Sometime this memory would be pried loose, in its rounded beauty, to stand by itself as an object of delight.”

— Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson Quote: “I was thinking that you might make a gingerbread man, and I could name him Charles and eat him.”

359. “I was thinking that you might make a gingerbread man, and I could name him Charles and eat him.”

— Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson Quote: “The wet raincoat smell was exciting, carrying with it remotely the institutional smells of the college, a faint echo of a cologne Natalie had never worn in her life; near the pocket was a cigarette burn she had not made; the raincoat was in itself a symbol of going and coming, of wishing and fearing, or, precisely, the going out of a warm, firelit house into the heartbreaking cold.”

360. “The wet raincoat smell was exciting, carrying with it remotely the institutional smells of the college, a faint echo of a cologne Natalie had never worn in her life; near the pocket was a cigarette burn she had not made; the raincoat was in itself a symbol of going and coming, of wishing and fearing, or, precisely, the going out of a warm, firelit house into the heartbreaking cold.”

— Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson Quote: “Some inner integrity had preserved their shop from being a shoppe.”

361. “Some inner integrity had preserved their shop from being a shoppe.”

— Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson Quote: “I could fasten him to a tree and keep him there until he grew into the trunk and bark grew over his mouth.”

362. “I could fasten him to a tree and keep him there until he grew into the trunk and bark grew over his mouth.”

— Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson Quote: “The road to hell is very likely paved with my notes for stories and books and articles.”

363. “The road to hell is very likely paved with my notes for stories and books and articles.”

— Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson Quote: “We had three more attics, but one of them was full of old lumber and bricks left over from the various additions that had been built onto the house, and one of them was full of bats, and the last could only be reached by climbing through a trapdoor in the ceiling of the next-to-the-last attic and even if I could get past the bats and through the lumber and bricks I did not think I could keep taking the baby up and down through a trapdoor.”

364. “We had three more attics, but one of them was full of old lumber and bricks left over from the various additions that had been built onto the house, and one of them was full of bats, and the last could only be reached by climbing through a trapdoor in the ceiling of the next-to-the-last attic and even if I could get past the bats and through the lumber and bricks I did not think I could keep taking the baby up and down through a trapdoor.”

— Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson Quote: “All right, folks.” Mr. Summers said. “Let’s finish quickly.”

365. “All right, folks.” Mr. Summers said. “Let’s finish quickly.”

— Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson Quote: “Let us have a little more brandy,′ the doctor said, ’and I will tell you the story of Hill House.”

366. “Let us have a little more brandy,′ the doctor said, ’and I will tell you the story of Hill House.”

— Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson Quote: “Beneath the trees it was not dark as a room is dark when the lights are put out, the artificial darkness which comes when an artificial light is gone; it was the deep natural darkness which comes with a forsaking of natural light.”

367. “Beneath the trees it was not dark as a room is dark when the lights are put out, the artificial darkness which comes when an artificial light is gone; it was the deep natural darkness which comes with a forsaking of natural light.”

— Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson Quote: “It was an unpleasant business, like all family quarrels, and as in all family quarrels incredibly harsh and cruel things were said on either side.”

368. “It was an unpleasant business, like all family quarrels, and as in all family quarrels incredibly harsh and cruel things were said on either side.”

— Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson Quote: “A television set in Florida refused to let itself be turned off; until its owners took an axe to it, it continued, on or off, presenting inferior music and stale movies and endless, maddening advertising, and even under the axe, with its last sigh, it died with the praises of a hair tonic on its lips.”

369. “A television set in Florida refused to let itself be turned off; until its owners took an axe to it, it continued, on or off, presenting inferior music and stale movies and endless, maddening advertising, and even under the axe, with its last sigh, it died with the praises of a hair tonic on its lips.”

— Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson Quote: “I told you that you would like it on the moon.”

370. “I told you that you would like it on the moon.”

— Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson Quote: “Now what was here, she wondered, what was here and is gone, or what was going to be here and never came?”

371. “Now what was here, she wondered, what was here and is gone, or what was going to be here and never came?”

— Shirley Jackson

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