Zoé Barbieri

“For the first time in a long while, he looked down and saw his hands. If you have had this experience, you'll know just what I mean.”
― Jesse Ball, The Curfew

“Fear and guilt are sisters;”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“There will be no magic, whatsoever. Magic is either a poverty-stricken necessity or a wealthy fantasy. We are in neither of those straits, and what cannot be explained will be left unknown.”
― Jesse Ball, The Curfew