# Quote — Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

> All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this…"

- Author: [Shirley Jackson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shirley-jackson.md)
- Book: [We Have Always Lived in the Castle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shirley-jackson/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Shirley_Jackson#We_Have_Always_Lived_in_the_Castle_(1962)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/shirley-jackson/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle/all-cat-stories

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> My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often tthought that with any luck at all I could have 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 my family is dead.

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