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We Have Always Lived in the Castle QUOTES

We Have Always Lived in the Castle QUOTES

1 " Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of. "

― Shirley Jackson , We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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

― Shirley Jackson , We Have Always Lived in the Castle

3 " We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it. "

― Shirley Jackson , We Have Always Lived in the Castle

4 " When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, perhaps because he had very few ideas and had to wring each one dry. "

― Shirley Jackson , We Have Always Lived in the Castle

5 " I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.'
'I doubt if I could cook one,' said Constance. "

― Shirley Jackson , We Have Always Lived in the Castle

6 " The Amanita phalloides... holds three different poisons. There is amanitin, which works slowly and is most potent. There is phalloidin, which acts at once, and there is phallin, which dissolves red corpuscles, although it is the least potent. The first symptoms do not appear until seven to twelve hours after eating, in some cases not before twenty-four or even forty hours. The symptoms begin with violent stomach pains, cold sweat, vomiting- "

― Shirley Jackson , We Have Always Lived in the Castle

7 " You will be wondering about that sugar bowl, I imagine, is it still in use? You are wondering, has it been cleaned? You may very well ask, was it thoroughly washed? "

― Shirley Jackson , We Have Always Lived in the Castle

8 " I am walking on their bodies, I thought, we are having lunch in the garden and Uncle Julian is wearing his shawl. "

― Shirley Jackson , We Have Always Lived in the Castle

9 " All the Blackwood women had taken the food that came from the ground and preserved it, and the deeply colored rows of jellies and pickles and bottled vegetables and fruit, maroon and amber and dark rich green, stood side by side in our cellar and would stand there forever, a poem by the Blackwood women. "

― Shirley Jackson , We Have Always Lived in the Castle

10 " They are the children of the strangers," I told her. "They have no faces."
"They have eyes."
"Pretend they are birds. "

― Shirley Jackson , We Have Always Lived in the Castle

11 " La comida viene de la tierra y no podemos permitir que se quede allí y se pudra; hay que hacer algo con ella. "

― Shirley Jackson , We Have Always Lived in the Castle

12 " Todas las mujeres de la familia Blackwood habían recogido la comida que daba la tierra y la habían conservado, y los tarros de intensos colores con embutidos y verduras y mermeladas granate, ámbar y verde oscuro estaban uno al lado de los otros y allí se quedarían para siempre, como un poema compuesto por las mujeres de la familia Blackwood. "

― Shirley Jackson , We Have Always Lived in the Castle

13 " The thought of a ring around my finger always made me feel tied tight, because rings had no openings to get out of. "

― Shirley Jackson , We Have Always Lived in the Castle

14 " A pretty sight, a lady with a book. "

― Shirley Jackson , We Have Always Lived in the Castle

15 " My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead. "

― Shirley Jackson , We Have Always Lived in the Castle

16 " On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons. "

― Shirley Jackson , We Have Always Lived in the Castle

17 " I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more. "

― Shirley Jackson , We Have Always Lived in the Castle

18 " I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world. "

― Shirley Jackson , We Have Always Lived in the Castle

19 " I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village. "

― Shirley Jackson , We Have Always Lived in the Castle

20 " All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this... "

― Shirley Jackson , We Have Always Lived in the Castle