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People who are all alone have every right to be friends with one another.(" The Honeymoon Of Mrs. Smith" - Version 1)Shirley Jackson
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...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly groupShirley Jackson
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I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are embarked upon a secret life of crime.Shirley Jackson
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We believed optimistically that Laurie was a reformed character. I told my husband, on the last day of Laurie's confinement, that actually one good scare like that could probably mark a child for life, and my husband pointed out that kids frequently have an instinctive desire to follow the good example rather than the bad, once they find out which is which. We agreed that a good moral background and thorough grounding in the Hardy Boys would always tell in the long run.(" Arch- Criminal") .Shirley Jackson
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I sort of thought that maybe people had to talk that way, sort of saying the same things over and over because that way they can get along together without thinking." She stopped and thought. Why I was so worried, ” she said, “was because if people didn't say those damn things over and over, then they wouldn't talk to each other at all.Shirley Jackson