sums

“Go find someone else to shrive you, Stephen. I won’t grant you absolution for wanting more.”
― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Grace

“You don't have to take up a sword. Survival is bravery, too.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“It was like the ardour of a lover; it embarrassed me; it was hateful and yet over-powering; and with gloating eyes she drew me to her, and her hot lips travelled along my cheek in kisses; and she would whisper, almost in sobs, "You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever.”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“Every book is a little mirror, and sometimes you look into it and see someone else looking back.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust