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flowerytale: Bram Stoker — Dracula
eliamatrell:— MARGARET ATWOOD, from ‘Cat’s Eye’.
etromdthu:“His voice was low and had in it the timbre of certain great cathedral organs that seem, when they are played, to be conversing with God.” — Angela Carter, from “The Bloody Chamber”, The Bloody Chamber (via soracities)
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luthienne:Helen Oyeyemi, White is for Witching
derangedrhythms:[…] the weather promised only death.Hannah Kent, from ‘Burial Rites’
derangedrhythms:The sea gets into your head […] once you let it in, it doesn’t leave you alone.Hannah Kent, from ‘Burial Rites’
flowerytale: Gillian Flynn ― Sharp Objects
denn die Todten reiten schnell
liriostigre:Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
luthienne:Catherynne M. Valente, The Bread We Eat in Dreams; “White Lines on a Green Field”[Text ID: I’m better now, I’m braver now, doesn’t this feel like the end of everything and we have to get it while we can?]
maybe we will wake up singing
bluebeardsbride:“Why should I not want something better? Doesn’t everyone? Don’t you? A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not leave home too soon, so he tells a story about how one drowned his brother’s cousin’s
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derangedrhythms:Snow lay over the valley like linen, like a shroud waiting for the dead body of sky that slumped overhead.Hannah Kent, from ‘Burial Rites’
kafk-a:Virginia Woolf, from The Waves
virgin-martyr:“on love that is filth and beds that are blood” — Anne Carson, excerpt from “Elektra” from An Oresteia by Sophocles
she lives in dreams...alone
derangedrhythms:He knew me as one knows the seasons, knows the tide. Knew me like the smell of smoke, knew what I was, and what I wanted.Hannah Kent, from ‘Burial Rites’
florizels:“But in life, tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it.” — Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
pratssleeping-deactivated202111:Macbeth
xshayarsha: “…her arms full of books, and her eyes blazing like two poisoned moons.” — Helen Oyeyemi, from Mr Fox.
liriostigre:Han Kang, The Vegetarian (translated by Deborah Smith)
relatablepoetryandquotes: “I know I ought to kill myself, to sweep myself off the earth like a vile insect; but I’m afraid of showing magnanimity. I know it will be one more deceit—the last deceit in an endless series of deceits.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky,
thelovejournals:“I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk.” — Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
flowerytale: Virginia Woolf ― The Waves
my body; the exit wound
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hush-syrup:“Well, if God doesn’t exist, who’s laughing at us?” — From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
seitenhoehlchen:“I can smell your heart. It’s like a rich meal, set out just for me. And I should know by now: Rich meals laid out as if by magic, in the wood, unlooked for—those are seductions.”— Catherynne M. Valente, from Deathless.
propertiesofjoy:crime and punishment, fyodor dostoevsky
holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe:“I’ll not fight the thing inside me anymore. Let it eat me up. Please God. I want it to.”— A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, Eimear McBride
propertiesofjoy:fyodor dostoyevsky, the brothers karamazov
skvoreshniki-deactivated2023020:“You’re in bad shape. It looks like you’re developing a soul.”—Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
metamorphesque:― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
antigonick:“I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.” — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
megairea: “There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.” — Donna Tartt, The Secret History,
studylikeknope:the waves by virginia woolf
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