'Salem's Lot
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going was fine, yes, excellent, because you walked in the late afternoon daylight. But coming home twilight had begun to fall, freeing the shadows to yawn across the road in long, twisty patterns—or,
“anger lidding her eyes and thinning her mouth. She is looking positively miserable these days. The lines on her sallow forehead seem to be mating to beget more lines. Her chin sags like a turkey’s wattle.”
― Victorian Psycho
― Victorian Psycho
“My boots land in mud with the squelch of viscera squeezed in a fist.”
― Victorian Psycho
― Victorian Psycho
“journeys around the gardens and through the moors, the sun lowering progressively earlier, our shadows cast before us like freshly dug graves.”
― Victorian Psycho
― Victorian Psycho
“I wonder what all the fuss with children is about. They’re only people, albeit smaller. Why care about people when they’re small if no one cares about them when they’re grown?”
― Victorian Psycho
― Victorian Psycho
“One day,’ I whisper – so faintly it could be a private prayer – ‘Drusilla will marry a rich man, a very rich man. He will own steeds made of velvet and thoughts carved of marble”
― Victorian Psycho
― Victorian Psycho
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