She walked quickly around her one-room apartment. After more than four years in this one home she knew … - Shirley Jackson

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In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's milk in our infancy.

Shirley Jackson

She walked quickly around her one-room apartment. After more than four years in this one home she knew all its possibilities, how it could put on a sham appearance of warmth and welcome when she needed a place to hide in, how it stood over her in the night when she woke suddenly, how it could relax itself into a disagreeable unmade, badly-put-together state, mornings like this, anxious to drive her out and go back to sleep.

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