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“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.”
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic the living in every detail since, though they cannot speak or weep, still they project those signals of signification we instantly recognize as language.”
― Wayward Girls and Wicked Women
― Wayward Girls and Wicked Women
“I would really like to have had the guts and the energy and so on to be able to write about, you know, people having battles with the DHSS. But I...I haven't. They're dull things. I mean, I'm an arty person. OK, I write overblown, purple, self-indulgent prose. So fucking what?”
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“I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork. Geeks unite.”
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“Amongst the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest?”
― Nights at the Circus
― Nights at the Circus
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