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October 25, 2021
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
October 25: S.T.A.G.S. Series by M.A. Bennett (2017-2021)
Quote from S.T.A.G.S. (2017):
I think that’s when I realised he was crazy: he was still being chivalrous, waiting until I was quite ready for him to kill me.
October 24, 2021
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
October 24: House of Night series by P.C. & Kristin Cast (2007-2014)
Quote from Marked (2007):
“Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.”
NOTE: I contributed the essay “Reimagining ‘Magic City’: How the Casts Mythologize Tulsa” to a book about the House of Night Series, Nyx in the House of Night. You can read more of my posts about the series here.
October 23, 2021
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
October 23: Dark Things I Adore by Katie Lattari (2021)
Quote:
Someone knows what I did. And someone knows that I’m back.
October 22, 2021
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
October 22: Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand (1994)
Quote 1:
They never found her. Nothing at all: no clothes, no jewelry, no bones or teeth or locks of auburn hair.
Quote 2:
By the door the two figures remained still. I slitted my eyes, afraid that they would see that I was awake, be moved by the reflection of starlight in my pupils to reach for me with those terrible arms. Still they said nothing, only stood there unmoving, watching, waiting.
October 21, 2021
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
October 21: Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth (2020)
Quote:
You’re much too young to haunt your own life.
October 20, 2021
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
October 20: Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko & Sergey Dyachenko, trans. Julia Meitov Hersey (1st published 2007, in English 2018)
Quote:
“‘If we get to the end of the course… we shall become just like them. And we shall speak their language. Then we’ll take revenge.’”
Sasha shook her head.
“If we get to the end of this course, we won’t want to take revenge anymore. We’ll become just like them.”
October 19, 2021
31 Days of Dark Academia - Halloween 2021
October 19: How We Fall Apart by Katie Zhao (2021)
Quote:
A kid at our school died, and my parents’ biggest concern is my calc grade. Smh —Anon
October 18, 2021
30 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
October 18: If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio (2017)
Quote 1:
But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart — by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.
Quote 2:
You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.
October 17, 2021
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
October 17: In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead (2021)
Quote:
It turns out the real you is a quilt, made up of the light and the dark. The life you’ve lived in sunshine and your shadow life, stretching underneath the surface of your mind like a deep underwater world, exerting invisible power. You are a living, breathing story made up of the moments in time you cherish, all strung together, and those you hide. The moments that seem lost. Until the day they’re not.
October 16, 2021
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
October 16: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
Quote:
We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.
