Catherine Watson

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

“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