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Ligotti speaks to me in ways no other writer does. There's a beauty to the cold emptiness of his nihilistic horrors. Something comforting in their hopelessness. You can stop running once you realize there's nowhere to run to. Not that all the stories ...more "
“I once asked the servants why none of them had blue eyes like my aunts. They replied that only the ladies could afford to buy the blue glass cups in which they kept their eyes at night to make them more blue and beautiful, and furthermore, if we went on asking silly questions, the rats that steal the faces of inquisitive children in order to wear them as masks would come to take us to live in the twilit world between the ceiling and the roof where no one ever dared to go.”
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“It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.”
― I the Supreme
― I the Supreme
“You believed you could transcend the body as you aged, she tells herself. You believed you could rise above it, to a serene, nonphysical realm. But it’s only through ecstasy you can do that, and ecstasy is achieved through the body itself. Without the bone and sinew of wings, no flight. Without that ecstasy you can only be dragged further down by the body, into its machinery. Its rusting, creaking, vengeful, brute machinery.”
― Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
― Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
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