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#1

“I have never tried to be a good person, or to appear to be a good person. What I do and what I have done is merely a side effect of my desire to become me. I have only wanted to be me; if people think I'm good, then so be it. If people think I'm bad, then so be it. But if anything, my greatest struggle is to not come across as so good. I always find myself asking, "Why do I keep on giving off this immense impression of goodness?" Can I ask the world, am I not simply allowed to be me; without needing to be classified as either good or bad? Being known as good has its own prison just as much as being bad has its jail bars. I am so tired of the need to classify people. I am me.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: bad-girl, be-a-bad-person, be-a-good-person, be-yourself, becoming-me, being-me, good-and-bad, good-girl, goodness-and-badness, individuality, inspirational-quotes, inspirational-women-s-quotes, wisdom-quotes

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#2

“Beside her, her husband could only splutter, and he stopped even that when she half turned to flash him a smile - the instinctive, brilliant smile of a woman who knows what feeble creatures men can be. You couldn't learn to smile like that. It was something a woman either knew the minute she was born, or never knew at all. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")”
― Cornell Woolrich, The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich

tags: femme-fatale

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#3

“The spider's web: She finds an innocuous corner in which to spin her web. The longer the web takes, the more fabulous its construction. She has no need to chase. She sits quietly, her patience a consummate force; she waits for her prey to come to her on their own, and then she ensnares them, injects them with venom, rendering them unable to escape. Spiders – so needed and yet so misunderstood.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

tags: femme-fatale, patience, spider, spider-web, spiders

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#4

“I’ve grown quite weary of the spunky heroines, brave rape victims, soul-searching fashionistas that stock so many books. I particularly mourn the lack of female villains — good, potent female villains. Not ill-tempered women who scheme about landing good men and better shoes (as if we had nothing more interesting to war over), not chilly WASP mothers (emotionally distant isn’t necessarily evil), not soapy vixens (merely bitchy doesn’t qualify either). I’m talking violent, wicked women. Scary women. Don’t tell me you don’t know some. The point is, women have spent so many years girl-powering ourselves — to the point of almost parodic encouragement — we’ve left no room to acknowledge our dark side. Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.”
― Gillian Flynn

tags: bad-women, dark-side, female-villains, femme-fatale, gillian-flynn, quote, wicked-women

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#5

“There were many beautiful vipers in those days and she was one of them. ("Eveline's Visitant")”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies

tags: evil-women, femme-fatale

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#6

“I knew what she was, and it made no difference at all. She was hard, as ruthless as she was beautiful, as brittle as bone china.”
― Clifton Adams

tags: femme-fatale, noir

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#7

“She just stood there and looked at the empty highway, and you could almost tell how bored she was by the way she stood.”
― Clifton Adams

tags: femme-fatale, noir

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#8

“Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.”
― Holly Black, White Cat

tags: clever, con, devil, lie, sexy, wit

1222 likes

#9

“I wouldn’t even be the “world’s sexiest man” if the planet were populated entirely by my clones. ”
― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

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#10

“Alright, good night,” he said, his words a little slurred. “But before I pass out, I want you to know that you’re the hottest biscuit this side of the gravy boat.”
― Erin McCarthy, Hard and Fast

tags: cute, funny, hot, humor, love, relationships, sexy

64 likes

#11

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”
― André Gide, Prometheus Illbound

tags: horror, life, mankind, writers

394 likes

#12

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

tags: horror, inspirational, misattributed-to-stephen-king

275 likes

#13

“Vampires, real vampires, didn't nibble on the necks of nubile young virgins. They tore people to pieces and sucked the blood out of the chunks. ”
― David Wellington, 99 Coffins

tags: horror, vampires

140 likes

#14

“Blood is really warm,
it's like drinking hot chocolate
but with more screaming.”
― Ryan Mecum, Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry for Your...Brains

tags: blood, haiku, horror, humor, zombies

293 likes

#15

“The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: decadence, devil, horror

309 likes

#16

“The charm of horror only tempts the strong”
― Jean Lorrain

tags: horror, supernatural

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#17

“Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up”
― Stephen King, It

tags: adults, bill, childhood, grownups, horror, it, pennywise, stephen-king

110 likes

#18

“Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.”
― Guy de Maupassant

tags: horror, supernatural

30 likes

#19

“Death's gruesome face taunts:
soulless eyes, crimson grimace.
I really hate clowns.”
― Katherine Applegate

tags: clowns, horror

25 likes

#20

“No I'm not a dream, I'm your worst nightmare”
― C.T. Todd

tags: action-adventure, drama, horror, romance, vampire

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#21

“The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.”
― Fritz Leiber, Heroes and Horrors

tags: horror, supernatural, unknown

43 likes

#22

“Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

tags: elphaba, guilt, remorse, sorrow, witch

188 likes

#23

“Those that can heal can harm; those that can cure can kill.”
― Celia Rees, Witch Child

tags: cure, harm, heal, kill, witch

122 likes

#24

“Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,—
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.”
― William Shakespeare

tags: halloween, shakespeare, witch, witches

257 likes

#25

“I am wicked in many ways.”
― Jessica Spotswood, Born Wicked

tags: laine-s-fave, wicked, witch

46 likes

#26

“Lips to lips, mouth to mouth,
Comes the speaker of the shrouds,
Suck in the spirit, speak the words,
Let secrets of the dead be heard.”
― Yasmine Galenorn, Witchling

tags: demon, dragon, love, paranormal, paranormal-fiction, paranormal-romance, romance, witch, witchling, yasmine-galenorn

56 likes

#27

“May your glass always be full, may there always be a roof over your head, and may you dirty sinners be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead.”
― Jason Jack Miller, HELLBENDER

tags: appalachian, appalachian-fiction, hellbender, jason-jack-miller, murder-ballads-and-whiskey, supernatural, west-virginia, witch, witchcraft

24 likes

#28

“Where got she her sullen mouth
And where her swaying form?
Would she live on eggs and apples
When the blood of men is warm?
(“The Young Witch”)”
― George Sterling, The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

tags: blood, horror, supernatural, witch

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#29

“Nothing else in the whole wide world matters as much as avenging your sister.”
― Jason Jack Miller, HELLBENDER

tags: appalachia, appalachian-fiction, hellbender, jason-jack-miller, murder-ballads-and-whiskey, supernatural, west-virginia, witch, witchcraft

5 likes

#30

“A witch is wise. She has earned her wisdom. She has learned to love her shadows and has grown more beautiful because of it. She has proven she can stand comfortably within her powers. She has become the true embodiment of a witch.”
― Dacha Avelin

tags: magick, occult, occultism, old-world-witchcraft, self-development, self-empowerment, self-love, spellwork, witch, witchcraft

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