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“How swiftly, how suddenly everything had gone wrong. Where did it even begin?”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering, or the total absence of meaning in their lives.”
― Veronika Decides to Die
― Veronika Decides to Die
“For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighted upon me all day. I felt myself a changed girl. A strange melancholy was stealing over me, a melancholy that I would not have interrupted. Dim thoughts of death began to open, and an idea that I was slowly sinking took gentle, and, somehow, not unwelcome, possession of me. If it was sad, the tone of mind which this induced was also sweet.”
― Carmilla
― Carmilla
“I wonder what it would be like to have something like that. Someone whom you could trust and call your friend since childhood. I have many good women whom I trust and call friends. But they are all recent finds. I don't have anything I've held on to since I was little.”
― Daughter of the Pirate King
― Daughter of the Pirate King
“I have been in love with no one, and never shall", she whispered, "unless it should be with you.”
― Carmilla
― Carmilla
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