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“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”
― Edvard Munch

“I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“If you love her," I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Shall we not spend our immortal life together? Surely, surely, we have ransomed one another, with all this woe!”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“You liked me best when I was like an oil painting; perfectly arranged and silent.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

“You could have kissed me or slit my throat and either would have made as much sense.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

“Laying with her made me feel so vibrantly alive. It was almost enough to make me forget I was already dead.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

“Water your mother's flowers with their blood.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

“I can't hold enough of you in my hands.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“I would rather love a coward than mourn a legend.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Six Deaths of the Saint

“That I have lived and killed and lived again in the name of a man who does not deserve it because I wanted so badly to be beloved. But only one person in all my lives has ever loved me, and he does not wear a crown.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Six Deaths of the Saint

“Are you saying that the couple who commits homicide together, stays together?” He snorted. “Too wordy. I prefer the couple who slays together, stays together.”
― Navessa Allen, Lights Out

“Aly? Do you want to be my girlfriend? The position comes with snacks and orgasms and maybe a little light stalking.”
― Navessa Allen, Lights Out

“it was better to be alone than to be stuck with people who were supposed to love you, yet couldn’t.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“That was the trouble with not being right in the head. You couldn’t always tell if your eyes were telling the truth.”
― Christina Henry, Alice

“How could I ever love you properly with a wall between us for all time?”
― Christina Henry, Alice

“Daughter, student, whore- they change you into whatever they need you to be. Choose for yourself. For once in your life.”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

“Could you fall out of love with life if you were never in love with it?”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“She was, to him, a holy grace, far more powerful than any priest or nun. God lived in her eyes. That was how he had fallen for her—like a religious conversion. It had struck him the moment he’d seen her, a profound, eternal love, the kind that occurred by cause of fate, against reason.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

“When she asked the birds what to do, they answered that they didn't know anything about love, that love was a distinctly human defect which God had created to counterbalance the power of human greed.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

“He called me dark, twisted, and mean.” “How sweet. He’s in love.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“But I wasn't listening. I wasn't stopping. Because we were already running away again, me and my imagination.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“She’s in love with being alive. And that’s also why I despise her. She can be what I can only see. She’s the breath others breathe. I’ll never be beautiful like that.”
― Penelope Douglas, Five Brothers

“Women love being owned by a good man.”
― Penelope Douglas, Five Brothers

“Leaning over the table, I close my eyes, take in a breath, and make my usual wish Let tomorrow be better than today. And I blow, almost instantly smelling the pungent stream of smoke curling into the air from the extinguished wick. It’s always the same wish. Every candle. Every time. I want a life I never want to take a vacation from. That’s my goal.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“You said I killed you-haunt me, then! [...] Be with me always-take any form-drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights