Alexandra

“It is a longing so intense that it creates what it desires, it cannot endure any touch of correction; it is, as I say, unspeakable.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Sundial

“When shall we live if not now?”
― Shirley Jackson, The Sundial

“Only human beings and rabid animals turn on their own kind,”
― Shirley Jackson, The Sundial

“It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.”
― John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids