“Tego najbardziej nie lubię u ludzi - zimnej ironii. To bardzo tchórzliwa postawa; wszystko można obśmiać, poniżyć, w nic się nigdy nie zaangażować, z niczym nie poczuć się związanym. Być jak impotent, który sam nigdy nie zażyje rozkoszy, ale zrobi wszystko, by obrzydzić ją innym.”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“I wasn't in the habit of confessing my sapphic proclivities as a sin, since I didn't consider them to be one, but my idolatry of Carmilla definitely counted as something worth confessing.”
― An Education in Malice
― An Education in Malice
“I just watched. I watched his shoulders shake, and his eyes swell, and blood dribble down his chin. He looked up at me, like I was supposed to do something. The transition from being hurt to hurting was natural. Even though I didn’t really know why he’d started crying – it felt like something I did. It felt like being a great big black widow and realising that all the male spiders were tiny and weak and covered in soft vulnerable bits, whereas I had this hard, shiny thorax and great big teeth.”
― Boy Parts
― Boy Parts
“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
“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
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