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October 7, 2021
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021October 7: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (2019)Quote 1:I want...
October 7: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (2019)
Quote 1:
I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.
Quote 2:
All you children playing with fire, looking surprised when the house burns down.
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
OCT. 7: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (2019)
Quote 1:
I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.
Quote 2:
All you children playing with fire, looking surprised when the house burns down.
October 6, 2021
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
October 6: The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992)
Quote:
Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw,’ that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn’t. Now I think it does.
October 5, 2021
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
October 5: Grey Land Duology by Peadar Ó Guilín (2016-2018)
Quote from The Call (2016):
“Oh, they mean to do more than kill you, child. They want to twist you. To crumple you up like an old sheet of paper.”
October 4, 2021
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
October 4: Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay (1967)
Quote:
The girl so far had remembered nothing of her experiences on the Rock; nor, in Doctor McKenzie’s opinion or that of the two eminent specialists from Sydney and Melbourne, would she ever remember. A portion of the delicate mechanism of the brain appeared to be irrevocably damaged.
“Like a clock, you know,” the doctor explained. “A clock that stops under a certain set of unusual conditions and refuses ever to go again beyond a particular point.”
October 3, 2021
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021October 3: Ace of Spades by Faridah...
October 3: Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (2021)
Quote:
I feel like I’m reliving the same nightmare over and over, and it will never stop.
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
October 3: Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (2021).
Quote:
I feel like I’m reliving the same nightmare over and over, and it will never stop.
October 2, 2021
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
October 2: Conversion by Katherine Howe (2014)
Quote:
Something was eating away at the back of my brain. Girls. Dominant narratives. Sex. Death. Arthur Miller. Ann Putman sitting invisible right in the middle of history.
October 1, 2021
31 Days of Dark Academia: Halloween 2021
October 1: Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson (1951)
Quote:
Poor things, she thought - do they have to spend all this energy just to surround me? It seemed pitiful that these automatons should be created and wasted, never knowing more than a minor fragment of the pattern in which they were involved, to learn and follow through insensitively a tiny step in the great dance which was seen close up as the destruction of Natalie, and far off, as the end of the world.
They had all earned their deaths, Natalie thought…
September 30, 2021
October is almost here! I’m currently working on new acad...
October is almost here!
I’m currently working on new academic projects related to Dark Academia (the subgenre, not the aesthetic), so for Halloween month I’ll be posting a different DA title each day with a haunting/atmospheric quote. I hope you’ll enjoy the recs!
