Rebecca

“A sharp reminder that all of floristry was a dance around decay.”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love

“you have to learn to love somebody in the quiet of themselves, as well as the noise, the chatter.”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love

“Lay waste to yourself all you like, I will grow in your ruin.”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love

“A vampire is a creature of total want, of pure appetite, an antithesis to our self-denial, and I find myself picking through the bones of the story about the tension between these two states. Appetite is a dirty word for women, a cardinal sin. For food and sex, yes, but also for power, for ambition, for violence. What is Carmilla but a woman unleashed on any limits on her appetites? Does it make her monstrous? Is what we celebrate in men always monstrous in women? Is it also not monstrous to starve ourselves, to kill our appetite until we embody a living death?”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone