Quotes by Shirley Jackson, Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

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People who are all alone have every right to be friends with one another.("The Honeymoon Of Mrs. Smith" - Version 1) — Shirley Jackson, Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories
...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and — Shirley Jackson, Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories
I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are embarked upon a s — Shirley Jackson, Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories
We believed optimistically that Laurie was a reformed character. I told my husband, on the last day of Laurie's confinem — Shirley Jackson, Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories
I sort of thought that maybe people had to talk that way, sort of saying the same things over and over because that way — Shirley Jackson, Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories