An Education in Malice Quotes

“She kissed me with a martyr’s agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on. I kissed her right back like the cutting edge of a blade, trying to inflict as much damage as possible.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“After all, what horror wouldn't I tolerate, if it was meted out by the hand of my beloved?”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“I kept my tastes quiet, kept them private, feeding them only rarely and when I was sure I wouldn't get caught. I often felt like a wolf wearing the skin of a girl, balancing on two legs and hoping no one would notice.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“I domesticated my own wildness, starved the odd appetites inside me. I remade myself into Laura the Saint, Laura who never causes any trouble, Laura who is reliable and dependable, if a little boring.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“If I couldn’t touch her, I would settle for making her squirm.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“I felt like the burning sun at the heart of the universe, the white-hot center of gravity, and Carmilla was every orbiting star. She was the velvety expanse of space wrapping around me, the kiss of asteroid dust against my exposed skin.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“I wasn't in the habit of confessing my sapphic proclivities as a sin, since I didn't consider them to be one, but my idolatry of Carmilla definitely counted as something worth confessing.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“I was, I knew full well, a creature composed of strange desires. They'd always been with me, these hungers. As a child I played villain in every game of 'capture the princess,' tying my pretty playmates up with jump ropes and spriting them away to my faux castle on the playground. I wrestled my friends to the ground in bursts of emotion, or punctuated kisses on the cheek with a sharp nip. It didn't help that I had absolutely no interest in pursuing companionship with boys in the same way I did girls, no matter how many limpid first dates I went on.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“Right and Wrong don't exist. They're fairy tales made up by priests and parents”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“I learned how to survive in the cutthroat world of girl-hood, where are all strangeness was unrooted as ruthlessly as weeds from a garden. I domesticated my own wildness, starved the odd appetites inside me. I remade myself into Laura the saint, Laura who is reliable and dependable, if a little boring.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“I saw her in the moment for what she truly was: a refugee from a more ancient age who only kept up the barest facsimile of youth and modernity, and even then only a smokescreen to draw in prey. I was, all of a sudden, a little bit afraid of her.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“This was the ferocious creature I had encountered in the shadows outside the party, the goddess that lived within the girl. This was the woman who would unapologetically torment a lover for the sake of her own satisfaction, who would demand nothing less than total submission.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“I had always loved being loomed over, especially by beautiful people. I was, at my core, a brat who adored the guidance of a firm hand. Maybe it was because my parents had been so absent growing up, or maybe it was simply a delicious aberration in my soul, but as she looked down at me, I couldn't help but feel small and trapped and thrilled.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“It should always be like this. It should always be senoir year. I should always be twenty-one, with nothing but life ahead of me. It should always be sunrise, at the start of a new day.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“I learned how to survive the cutthroat world of girlhood, where all strangeness was unrooted as ruthlessly as weeds from a garden.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“Laura, who had intruded into my sacred space and now made herself at home there.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“Love and pain grew in a thorny grove inside me, impossible to disentangle from one another.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“Nostalgia for a long-dead love, I reckoned, was far more potent than any intoxicant, and just as likely to lead to poor decision-making.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“I love knowing I was the force behind such beauty, that, in the end, it couldn't exist without me.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“She was an effigy on fire, everything I had ever only dared to dream of.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“I let my head fall back against the pillows, my eyes fluttering shut. Relief at being loved and the anticipation of being handled as though I was anything but pooled warmly in my stomach.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“With one deft motion... she was naked in front of me. Completely unbound, adorned in nothing but starlight and the grass curling over her toes.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“It was like she was watching a priest lift the cloth from a cup of communion wine, like I was brimming with all of creation's darkest secrets.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“She kissed me with a martyr's agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on. I kissed her right back like the cutting edge of a blade, trying to inflict as much damage as possible.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice