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The Devil Take You: 14 Tales of Medieval Horror

by Mitchell Lüthi (Goodreads Author)

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The Promise of Plague Wolves

by Coy Hall (Goodreads Author)

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Kayla said: " Hall's writing is always a delight. I am disturbed over how much I love the most crass and grotesque of his little goblin characters. Disturbed, but not surprised. The research is immaculate. I have run to Wikipedia in fascination at least 10 times a ...more "

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“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: dissent, life, morality, religion

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“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth. Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, to absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: feminism, gender-equality, jane-eyre

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“She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappropriate future moment.”
― Gail Carriger, Soulless

tags: humor, insult-to-a-werewolf

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“His Majesty, may he live forever and prosper greatly...
His Majesty, may sun finches warble sweet melodies in his ear...
His Majesty, may orchids bloom in the wake of his passing...
His Majesty, may minstrels compose epics at the sound of his glorious name...
His Majesty, may his magnificent sword shatter the breasts of his enemies...”
― Rae Carson, The Girl of Fire and Thorns

tags: addresses, humor, respect, royalty, titles

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“No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?"

"They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer.

"And what is hell? Can you tell me that?"

"A pit full of fire."

"And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?"

"No, sir."

"What must you do to avoid it?"

I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: children, hell, humor, religion

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