Ligeia

“I was afraid that if she went on much longer, her fingers would scrape away my skin, rip my flesh, crush my bones. The pillow was damp with saliva, and I wanted to scream.”
― Yōko Ogawa, Revenge

“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.”
― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

“I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)”
― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

“I’ll tell you a story, (…) A story about books, dragons and roses, as befits the date, but above all, a story about shadows and ashes, as befits the times…”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Rose of Fire