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“You worship death. You and all the One Gods. They seduce mankind with their promises of glory attained in the hereafter, thus blinding men to the splendor before them here on earth. One can never expect to achieve enlightenment if one does not first live life to its fullest.”
― Brom, Krampus: The Yule Lord

“As a woman, Shoko is extremely petite, but as a heart, she is wondrously large.”
― Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

“I experienced a strange tumultuous excitement that was pleasurable, ever and anon, mingled with a vague sense of fear and disgust. I had no distinct thoughts about her while such scenes lasted, but I was conscious of a love growing into adoration, and also of abhorrence. This I know is paradox, but I can make no other attempt to explain the feeling.”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“As funny as he thinks a fish would look, he wonders how the sea felt when her inhabitants started walking away. He wonders if maybe that’s why she keeps eating away at the land, trying to take back what it stole.”
― S.L. Coney, Wild Spaces

“As he walks with the crowd, he understands what he had forgotten: that a march is not just a voice against violence and trauma, but also a reminder that even in a cause that is stacked against them, no one is alone.”
― Cadwell Turnbull, No Gods, No Monsters

“Yes, people age horribly. They suffer strokes. Their bodies and brains fall apart. But the male ego? Firmly intact until the bitter end.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“We were something because we tell ourselves we were. But we can’t even agree on what we were.”
― Jared Pechaček, The West Passage