I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside. - Shirley Jackson

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 write and want to marry me but I will never marry any of them. I will have lots of money and jewels too.

"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.

"I will go on my horse and bring you cinnamon and thyme, emeralds and clove, cloth of gold and cabbages."
"And rhubarb."