Virgil

“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

“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

“I want to explain her in a way that would make you love her, but the problem with this is that loving is something we all do alone and through different sets of eyes.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“In my head, I think I’m often telling Miri stories, logging away information or things I’ve seen in order to tell her about them later.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea