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“And after ten years of waiting, it was Victor’s turn, to get into Eli’s head and do some ruining.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“What would I give, to be seen? To be carefully studied and perfectly understood? Would I let someone carve me up, if it meant feeling like I was loved? I knew the answer was yes, because it had always been yes. I had let others bleed me dry for the sake of feeling wanted, even before Dracula came into my life. I wasn’t any different from the Lover. Staring into a face I adored and finding only pathetic need and madness, my questions shifted. I no longer cared why Dracula had killed and changed me. I wondered why I had let it happen.”
― Kiersten White, Lucy Undying

“She said from the moment she met him she could tell that all he wanted was to find a way to strap her into Nebraska’s electric chair. But the joke was on him. Because she requested hanging.”
― Kendare Blake, All These Bodies

“I was everything and nothing. Everywhere and nowhere. I felt myself light, like a cloud, like the vaporous mist from a kettle, or a hunt’s kill in winter, side ripped open and organs steaming against the snow. I was light, and darkness, tomorrow and yesterday, never, and always.”
― Kat Dunn , Bitterthorn