In ten years I will be a beautiful charming lovely lady writer without any husband or children but lots of lovers and everyone will read the books I … - Shirley Jackson

We are all measured, good or evil, by the wrong we do to others;

She had never driven far alone before. The notion of dividing her lovely journey into miles and hours was silly; she saw it [...] as a passage of moments, each one new, carrying her along with them, taking her down a path of incredible novelty to a new place. The journey itself was her positive action, her destination vague, perhaps nonexistent. [...] Or she might never leave the road at all, but just hurry on and on until the wheels of the car were worn to nothing and she had come to the end of the world.

My dear, how can I make you perceive that there is no danger where there is nothing but love and understanding?