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Ann Radcliffe
“Emily gazed with melancholy awe upon the castle, which she understood to be Montoni's; for, though it was now lighted up by the setting sun, the gothic greatness of its features, and its mouldering walls of dark grey stone, rendered it a gloomy and sublime object. As she gazed, the light died away on its walls, leaving a melancholy purple tint, which spread deeper and deeper, as the thin vapour crept up the mountain, while the battlements above were still tipped with splendour. From those, too, the rays soon faded, and the whole edifice was invested with the solemn duskiness of evening. Silent, lonely, and sublime, it seemed to stand the sovereign of the scene, and to frown defiance on all, who dared to invade its solitary reign. As the twilight deepened, its features became more awful in obscurity, and Emily continued to gaze, till its clustering towers were alone seen, rising over the tops of the woods, beneath whose thick shade the carriages soon after began to ascend.”
Ann radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho

M.L. Rio
“Were you in love with him?'
'Yes,' I say, simply. James and I put each other through the kind of reckless passions Gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. After all that, was it really so strange? I am no longer baffled or amazed or embarrassed by it. 'Yes, I was.' It's not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I'm in love with him still.”
M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

M.L. Rio
“How tremendous the agony of unmade decisions.”
M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

M.L. Rio
“I never asked where he went, worried he wouldn’t ask me to follow.”
M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains
tags: fear

M.L. Rio
“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

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