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Dracula
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“Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make!”
“I see!" said Ana, nodding. "I just have one more question."
"Of course"
"What color was the clay?"
Farazi blinked, confused. "Clay? What clay?"
"The clay you must have stuck in your eyes and ears," said Ana, grinning, "to remain so amazingly fucking ignorant of everything about you.”
― The Tainted Cup
"Of course"
"What color was the clay?"
Farazi blinked, confused. "Clay? What clay?"
"The clay you must have stuck in your eyes and ears," said Ana, grinning, "to remain so amazingly fucking ignorant of everything about you.”
― The Tainted Cup
“I’m actually quite fond of the Twilight novels. Plus, I would never stoop so low as to disparage the work of an over-imaginative and obviously undersexed artist who managed to become a brazilianaire from barely-disguised erotica targeted at adolescent girls. However, I would like to take this opportunity to point out that your culture’s obsession with fictional, underaged heroes was absolutely misguided. Paul Atreides was fifteen years old. Harry Potter was just eleven in the beginning of the first book. The kids from Stranger Things were all tweens. Kid ‘n Play were (portrayed”
― The Butcher's Masquerade
― The Butcher's Masquerade
“There is no greater snare than the state of the man with whom all goes smoothly, and who mistakes his circumstances for his virtues.”
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“I treated her as if she had human sympathies, in the hope that they might be generated somehow.”
― Uncle Silas
― Uncle Silas
“But its strangest feature is that the more its citizens feel it is broken, the more broken it actually becomes.”
― The Tainted Cup
― The Tainted Cup
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