“I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid to take it whole and work from there… I delight in what I fear.”
More from Shirley Jackson
“The world is too cruel to girls.”
“Do you know what it's like to have a secret?”
“A clean house is evidence of mental inferiority.”
“No live organism can continue to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”