Status Updates From Sempre Vivemos no Castelo

I'm connecting the dots now omg Shirley Jackson you are a GENIUS

rereading this with the knowledge of the plot twist makes me realise how well built up it is and how much foreshadowing there was. why can't Mary Katherine carry knives? because uncle Julian is still alive. why does she remind herself to be kinder to him? because of resentment

“…perhaps there would never be noise in the world again” (190).

“Certainly Uncle Julian buried in flowers, swarmed over by flowers, would not resemble the Uncle Julian we had seen every day” (189).

Marricat & neurodivergence - always the literal meaning

“…looking at one another; now, I thought, now we will know how safe we are” (187).

“It was good to run, and good to come back again to our house and see the kitchen door standing open and the warm light inside” (186).

“The kitchen was warm and comfortable and familiar and clean” (185).

“We were going to be very happy, I thought. There were a great many things to do, and a whole new pattern of days to arrange, but I thought we were going to be very happy” (183).

Crazy statement after murdering your family and having 90% of your house burn down

“We’ll know why it’s there, and no one else will ever see it” (183).

i am obsessed with this book