Frases de Shirley Jackson

Shirley Hardie Jackson foi uma escritora norte-americana, conhecida principalmente por suas obras de horror e mistério. Durante suas duas décadas de carreira, ela escreveu seis romances, dois livros de memórias e vários contos.

Mesmo tendo nascido em São Francisco, na Califórnia, Jackson estudou na Universidade de Syracuse, em Nova Iorque, onde se envolveu com a revista literária da universidade e conheceu seu futuro marido, Stanley Edgar Hyman. Depois do casal ter fixado residência em North Bennington, no estado de Vermont, em 1940, Hyman estabeleceu uma carreira como crítico literário e Jackson começou a escrever.

Depois de publicar seu romance de estreia, The Road Through the Wall , um relato semi-autobiográfico de sua infância na Califórnia, Jackson atrairia a atenção do público por seu conto "The Lottery," que detalha um submundo secreto e sinistro de um bucólico povoado americano. Ela continuaria a publicar vários contos em periódicos literários e revistas ao longo dos anos 1950, alguns dos quais foram reunidos e relançados em seu livro de memórias Life Among the Savages . Em 1959, ela publicou The Haunting of Hill House, um romance de horror sobrenatural amplamente considerado uma das melhores histórias de fantasma já escritas.Uma mulher reclusa, Jackson permaneceu em North Bennington durantes os últimos anos de sua vida, e era avessa a discutir sua obra com o público. Nos anos 1960, sua saúde começou a deteriorar significativamente como resultado de seu aumento de peso e consumo de cigarros, levando, eventualmente, a sua morte por insuficiência cardíaca em 1965 aos 48 anos. Jackson foi citada como uma influência por uma variedade de autores, incluindo Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Sarah Waters, Nigel Kneale, Joanne Harris e Richard Matheson. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. Dezembro 1916 – 8. Agosto 1965   •   Outros nomes 雪莉·傑克森, شرلی جکسن, შირლი ჯექსონი
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Shirley Jackson: Frases em inglês

“Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?”

Shirley Jackson livro The Haunting of Hill House

Fonte: The Haunting of Hill House

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

Shirley Jackson livro We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Fonte: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”

Shirley Jackson livro The Haunting of Hill House

Fonte: The Haunting of Hill House

“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”

Shirley Jackson livro We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Fonte: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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

Shirley Jackson livro We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Fonte: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“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 livro We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Fonte: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this…”

Shirley Jackson livro We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Fonte: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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

Shirley Jackson livro We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Fonte: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.”

Shirley Jackson livro We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Fonte: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons.”

Shirley Jackson livro We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Fonte: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.”

Shirley Jackson livro We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Fonte: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”

Shirley Jackson livro The Haunting of Hill House

Fonte: The Haunting of Hill House (1959), Ch. 1
Contexto: No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

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

Shirley Jackson livro We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Fonte: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“When shall we live if not now?”

Shirley Jackson livro The Sundial

Fonte: The Sundial

“God! Whose hand was I holding?”

Shirley Jackson livro The Haunting of Hill House

Fonte: The Haunting of Hill House