Quotes About Merricat

#1. I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.

Shirley Jackson

#2. Merricat, said Connie, would you like to go to sleep? Down in the boneyard ten feet deep!

Shirley Jackson

#3. I remember being so full of pain and anger that I wished nothing but tongue-burning on everyone who hurt me, especially Moses Hunt. But here's the thing- Merricat poisoned her entire family. The only crime I committed was being fat.

Jennifer Niven

#4. And we held each other in the dark hall and laughed, with the tears running down our cheeks and echoes of our laughter going up the ruined stairway to the sky.
'I am so happy,' Constance said at last, gasping. 'Merricat, I am so happy.'
'I told you that you would like it on the moon.

Shirley Jackson

#5. When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, perhaps because he had very few ideas and had to wring each one dry.

Shirley Jackson

#6. your happiness depends far more on the number of instances of positive feelings, what psychologists call "positive affect," than on their intensity when they hit. In

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.

Shirley Jackson

#8. Those who cannot easily forgive will not collect many friends. Look for the best in others and yourself.

Ethan Hawke

#9. Life is no way to treat an animal.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#10. Call me a midget, but just be real. I am all for correct terms, but please don't tiptoe around feelings. Don't be too careful, because that shuts you off from people.

Peter Dinklage

#11. A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender it - this was the wise saying of Sir Thomas Browne.

A.S. Byatt

#12. It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else.

Gillian Flynn

#13. It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great.

Lindsay Lohan

#14. I get up at seven for the make-up, Rita Hayworth at six, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis at five. I don't want to know the time when I'll have to come to the studio even earlier.

Grace Kelly

#15. I feel like I've passed through a certain door in my life and that I'm standing in a different room now.

Sheryl Crow