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    Angela Carter
    “There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.”
    ― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
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    Stephen King
    “Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”
    ― Stephen King, The Body
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    Mary Gaitskill
    “Of course there’s something there; unfortunately, there’s always something ‘there.’ Something you will one day be sorry you saw.”
    ― Mary Gaitskill, Veronica
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    Francesca Lia Block
    “If Death is your father, you don't ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next. If Death is your lover, you don't have to be afraid that he will ever leave you.”
    ― Francesca Lia Block, Echo
    tags: death-francesca-lia-block-echo
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    Angela Carter
    “Evil is usually attractive, because evil is defiant.”
    ― Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
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    Angela Carter
    “I am happy only in that I am a monster.”
    ― Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
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    Joyce Carol Oates
    “And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates
    tags: good-and-evil, philosophy, truth
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    Angela Carter
    “A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster.”
    ― Angela Carter, The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography
    tags: freedom, society, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder.
    I sob, I sob.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love; love makes knots; love brutally tears them apart. I have been knotted; I have been torn apart.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
    tags: books, literature, reading, words
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    Mary Oliver
    “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: box, darkness, gift, love
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    Erin Morgenstern
    “You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”
    ― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
    tags: inspirational, story-teller, storytelling, your-gift
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”
    ― Rumi
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    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: inspirational
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “We are all someone's monster.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: matthias
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
    tags: genya
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    Leigh Bardugo
    “She wouldn't wish love on anyone. It was the guest you welcomed and then couldn't be rid of.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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    Francesca Lia Block
    “I want to be untouchable and beautiful and completely dead inside.”
    ― Francesca Lia Block, Baby Be-Bop
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    Emily Brontë
    “Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: catherine, haunting, heathcliff, love, malediction, restlessness
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    Anna Kavan
    “You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much.”
    ― Anna Kavan
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    Anna Kavan
    “As her fate, she accepted the world of ice, shining, shimmering, dead; she resigned herself to the triumph of glaciers and the death of the world.”
    ― Anna Kavan, Ice
    tags: death, fate, glaciers, ice, resignation
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    Anna Kavan
    “But to whom can one appeal when one does not even know where to find the judge? How can one ever hope to prove one's innocence when there is no means of knowing of what one has been accused? No, there's no justice for people like us in the world: all that we can do is to suffer as bravely as possible and put our oppressors to shame.”
    ― Anna Kavan, Asylum Piece
    tags: injustice, innocence, judge, justice
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    Anna Kavan
    “Something in her demanded victimization and terror, so she corrupted my dreams, led me into dark places I had no wish to explore. It was no longer clear to me which of us was the victim. Perhaps we were victims of one another.”
    ― Anna Kavan, Ice
    tags: dreams, ice, victim
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
    tags: destiny, fate
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? ”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
    tags: love
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    tags: monsters, scared
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  • #30
    Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
    “Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.”
    ― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
    tags: evil, monsters, murderers
    889 likes



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