“I learned how to survive in the cutthroat world of girl-hood, where are all strangeness was unrooted as ruthlessly as weeds from a garden. I domesticated my own wildness, starved the odd appetites inside me. I remade myself into Laura the saint, Laura who is reliable and dependable, if a little boring.”
― An Education in Malice
― An Education in Malice
“To be with her is a sin, to be without her is a tragedy.”
― Sunburn
― Sunburn
“After all, what horror wouldn't I tolerate, if it was meted out by the hand of my beloved?”
― An Education in Malice
― An Education in Malice
“Some ineffable piece of me had gone, rewritten by her touch, and what had been stolen was patched by a piece of her, some bit of her heart I had unknowingly taken with me.”
― Carmilla and Laura
― Carmilla and Laura
“I knew that it was cruel to be so optimistic, but, in my solitude, I couldn't resist the urge and spent entire days basking in idiotic fantasies, sometimes verging on prayer.”
― Heaven
― Heaven
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