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What might commend so drab a creature to your sight, when overhead the low clouds split, and the upturned bowl of a silver moon pours milk out on the river? Melmoth, Sarah Perry

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Death! Gruesome and terrible! Inevitable and senseless! We dance towards her as we might a beautiful woman (…) and Death waltzes back towards us, beckoning, always beckoning. Once the veil is pierced, we never return. Anatomy, Dana Schwartz

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I hope that my venom is strong and that you’ll come to me. It won’t be the same, I know, but you won’t be alone. Fledgling, Octavia E. Butler

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And what was a story except a berry you ate over and over again, until your lips and tongue were red and every word you spoke was poison? Juniper & Thorn, Ava Reid

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There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer. The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter

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He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux

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"Nothing out there is real. Everything is made out of something else, and everything is made to look like something else, and it all comes apart in your hands." The Sundial, Shirley Jackson

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen

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It was no longer the fear of the gallows, it was the horror of being Hyde that racked me. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

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"Heaven nor Hell shall impede my designs." The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole