Virgil

“Her lavender-gray skirt, shiny from wear, flamed into a blazing ball.”
― Olga Ravn, The Wax Child

“If social and political anxiety spawn zombies, then economic anxiety births haunted houses.”
― Grady Hendrix, Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

“It is easier, I think, to consider the fact of us in its many disparate pieces, as opposed to one vast and intractable thing. Easier, I think, to claw through the scatter of us in the hopes of retrieving something, of pulling some singular thing from the debris and holding it up to the light.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“Maren has been afraid a long time now, but as the carriage shakes her like a lentil in a boot, her fear is transformed into indifference, and then a peculiar delight. She looks out upon the meadows, the fields, the dew ponds filled with water after the rain. Maren decides she will be a stupid wife. Perhaps she has been one all along. She shrugs off all responsibility. About her brain she wraps a film of lies, so now no one can get to her, and no one can get to Karen or the others.”
― Olga Ravn, The Wax Child