Dark Tales Quotes

“Sometimes, when it had been a hard day at school and the future looked unusually dark, Miss Matt would permit herself to cry luxuriously for half an hour; afterward she would wash her face, and dress and go out to some nice restaurant for dinner.”
― Shirley Jackson, Dark Tales

“An odd thought crossed her mind: she would pick up the heavy glass ashtray and smash her husband over the head with it.”
― Shirley Jackson, Dark Tales

“Don’t be hypnotized by the sanctity of the superficial rhythm of humdrum life, Jackson warns, for under the surface of things, people change, sometimes irrevocably, and yet they may appear unaltered.”
― Shirley Jackson, Dark Tales

“This morning there was nothing but a circular from a New York department store, and their New York paper, which arrived erratically by mail from one to four days later than it should, so that some days the Allisons might have three papers and frequently none. Mrs. Allison, although she shared with her husband the annoyance of not having mail when they so anticipated it,”
― Shirley Jackson, Dark Tales

“After all,' said the old lady dreamily, with raindrops in her hair, 'we don't always see ahead, into things that are going to happen.”
― Shirley Jackson, Dark Tales

“It was not possible to communicate with her because she would not abandon her coffee cup.”
― Shirley Jackson, Dark Tales

“felt steamy and sticky and chilled through, and home seemed so far away that perhaps it did not exist at all.”
― Shirley Jackson, Dark Tales