“Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.”
― Dark Places
― Dark Places
“I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn't have loosened. A stitch come undone.”
― Dark Places
― Dark Places
“We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.”
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
“I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.”
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”
― Dark Places
― Dark Places
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