Catherine

“[W]here Satan is, in the world of horror, female genitals are likely to be nearby. The word vulva itself is related to valve — gate or entry into the body — and so it regularly serves for all manner of spirits [...] in occult horror. When the seance in Don’t Look Now stalls, the blind medium turns suddenly to Laura: ‘Are your legs crossed?’ [...] Whatever else those crossed legs may mean, they also signify access blocked; only when she uncrosses them can the seance go forward.”
― Carol J. Clover, Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film

“But when someone’s gone and you’re the primary keeper of his memory—letting go would be a kind of murder, wouldn’t it? I had so much love for him, even if it was a complicated love, and where is all that love supposed to go? He was gone, so it couldn’t change, it couldn’t turn to indifference. I was stuck with all that love.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“Go back, Sam. I'm going to Mordor alone.
Of course you are. And I'm coming with you.”
― Tolkien J. R. R., The Fellowship of the Ring

“To resist metaphor is very difficult because you have to actually endure the thing itself.”
― Marie Howe