Kamila

“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

“To believe in nothing is to believe in something. To hold the value that all values are baseless is to deny one value with another.”
― Robert Pantano, The Terrible Paradox of Self-Awareness: How Awareness Is the Beginning and End of Suffering

“If you saw what I saw, you’d choose betrayal, too.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex

“You must make choices, or the world will make them for you.”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls