Em Papageorge

“I am a woman woken from thirty years slumber, and I would eat the world should it satisfy this empty, keening void where my heart should be. I would cry with grief over my life so unfulfilled and drink down the salty tears, eat my worthless tongue and impotent fingers, skin this carcass and pick the bones clean. Oh God. There is something wrong with me. I am so, so hungry.”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone

“In these mysterious moods I did not like her. I experienced a strange tumultuous excitement that was pleasurable, ever and anon, mingled with a vague sense of fear and disgust. I had no distinct thoughts about her while such scenes lasted, but I was conscious of a love growing into adoration, and also of abhorrence. This I know is paradox, but I can make no other attempt to explain the feeling.”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“The place was freezing cold, like they were standing inside a freezer.”
― Kayla Edwards, City of Gods and Monsters

“why with so evident a desire of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice