“Darkness is impossible to remember. Consequently cavers desire to return to those unseen depths where they have just been. It is an addiction. No one is ever satisfied. Darkness never satisfies. Especially if it takes something away which it almost always invariably does.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“Glad to know you're thinking about me when you kiss your husband.”
― The Ballad of Never After
― The Ballad of Never After
“She didn't want someone to hold her while she cried and tell her it would be all right. She wanted fury, she wanted rage, she wanted a villain to tell her she'd done exactly what she needed to do.”
― The Ballad of Never After
― The Ballad of Never After
“In the morning, you can forget it. You can go back to pretending you don't like me, and I can pretend that I don't care. But for tonight, let me pretend you're mine.”
― The Ballad of Never After
― The Ballad of Never After
“Death isn’t frightening when weighed against an insignificant existence.”
― The Serpent and the Wings of Night
― The Serpent and the Wings of Night
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