Catherine Watson

“Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power are always an index of how much is not understood about a disease.”
― Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor

“I’d come to feel like a prisoner of my own story.”
― Tom O'Neill, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

“My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle