Livy

“The tenuous but precise way in which Le Fanu builds up the supernatural elements is akin to the pervasive effects of mildew on a solid wall. It is not by force but by accumulation that he demolishes disbelief and tears down the barrier that separates us from fear.”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Haunting of Hill House

“It always makes me a little sad when you laugh," Julian went on. "The way it sort of takes you by surprise. I love it, it has that sweet sincerity that's the best part of you, but it still kills me how you never seem to expect it. All I want to do is make you happy, and you're the unhappiest person I've ever met.”
― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

“When we believe, we hold on to what we think is true. But when we have a conviction, that truth holds on to us.”
― June Hur, The Silence of Bones

“He was getting better at giving his family the lies they wanted. That wasn't the same as the lies becoming easier.

It wasn't Julian's kind of lying. Paul couldn't invent a new reality from whole cloth, much less pretend to believe it. But he'd developed a surprising intuition for which fragments of himself his family could tolerate, and he was able, with effort, to slice away every extraneous truth until only the acceptable parts of him were visible.”
― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights