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My monster suit always fit better than my regular skin. I was never a guardian, or a hero, but a creator and harvester of fear.
“The sacrifice is usually chained to the rock. She does not usually dance out to meet her monster.”
― The Queen of the Night
― The Queen of the Night
“But boys will be boys, our favorite phrase that excuses so many things, while the only thing we have for the opposite gender is women, said with disdain and punctuated with an eye roll.”
― The Female of the Species
― The Female of the Species
“To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“The earth holds things in its body. In clay. In ice. The real. The unreal. Time. Each other. All the chances we had.”
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
― It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Emma
― Emma
Horror Spotlight
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We read diverse horror. Our readalongs take place on our discord server each month.
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If you love horror literature, movies, and culture, you're in the right place. Whether it's vampires, werewolves, zombies, serial killers, plagues, or ...more
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Discover and share your discovery of the most recently published literary fiction. If you love reading novels before anyone else decides they are good ...more
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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
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celebrating literature, authors, and the literary community, curated by Emma Roberts & Karah Preiss ...more
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