Josefine ✨

“I wondered about going down to the creek, but I had no reason to suppose that the creek would even be there, since I never visited it on Tuesday mornings.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“It was as though the people needed the ugliness of the village, and fed on it. The houses and the stores seemed to have been set up in contemptuous haste to provide shelter for the drab and the unpleasant.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“The people who owned the stores lived above them, in a row of second story apartments, and the curtains in the regular line of second story windows were pale and without life; whatever planned to be colorful lost its heart quickly in the village. The blight on the village never came from the Blackwoods; the villagers belonged here and the village was the only proper place for them. I always thought about rot when I came toward the row of stores; I thought about burning black painful rot that ate away from inside, hurting dreadfully. I wished it on the village.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“Now let me ask you a technical question. Do you have any heroes?"

"I guess Whoopi Goldberg is my hero."

"A family friend?"

"She took care of me after my mother died," I said. Who hadn't heard of Whoopi Goldberg?”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation