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“I’ve never met anyone who’s a hopeless case.” His eyes fluttered closed. “You have never met anyone like me, Miss Greenberg.”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

“She said it was a sin to butcher an animal that you didn’t love first. And it was true. She loved the sheep. And they loved her back. “It’s a sad fact about true love,” my mother told me once. “The sheep love me without ceasing, and that is why I am able to cause them pain—love is the path of least resistance, you see? It’s a lot more work to cause harm to someone who mistrusts you, or fears you. Or hates you. Love opens the city gates wide, and allows all manner of horrors right inside. This is why they don’t flinch when I come at them with something unpleasant.” She paused for a moment. She took my hand between both of hers and her face became grave. “It’s the same thing with us. You’ll understand this when you’re older. You’ll learn that you’re safest around the people you mistrust and dislike. Your guard is up, you see? The more you love someone, the more dangerous to you they become. The more you love someone, the more willing you are to show them your throat.” At the time, I thought this was wise. I think differently now.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband

“It’s absurd, sometimes, the thought that she loves him. He’s grateful, of course, but it feels as though it’s just another of the ridiculous, absurd, dangerous things she does. She wants to fight monsters, and she wants him for a lover, the same boy she fantasized about murdering. She likes nothing easy or safe or sure.”
― Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“When I think about Cassie
never returning to me it makes me sad
Waking up in the evening isn't exciting
anymore now that I know I won't
be seeing her face.


So you're into her, is what I'm hearing.


Absolutely not. I am NOT "into her."
I just like her drawings.
And her everything.


Oh, this is gonna be good.”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire