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"Things don’t have to stay as what they started out as."

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Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

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"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking."

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Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood

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"You keep rescuing me and I don’t know why,” Gretchen said. “But every day I tell myself my life must be worth something because you keep saving it. They can’t keep us apart. I don’t care what happens. You never stopped trying to save me."

Books Read or Re-read in 2023;

My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

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"...and to this hour the image of Carmilla returns to mind with ambiguous alterations--sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church; and often from a reverie I have started, fancying I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing room door."

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Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

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“What do they mean, "the world"? he said."

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The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

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"Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But he was too ugly! And he had to hide his genius or use it to play tricks with, when, with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar. Ah, yes, we must need pity the Opera ghost..."

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The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

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"I MAY HAVE ALLOWED MYSELF SOME FLICKER OF EMOTION IN THE RECENT PAST, said Death, BUT I CAN GIVE IT UP ANY TIME I LIKE."

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Soul Music by Terry Pratchett

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"An android,” he said, “doesn’t care what happens to another android. That’s one of the indications we look for." “Then,” Miss Luft said, “you must be an android."

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick

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She smiled, and it was as if the sun shone into that dim room. "The little people will stop where they are, now. I do not like them. And you, girl. You will sleep too."

"No," said the Queen.

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The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman

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"O, was there not, from the first, more poison in thy nature than in mine?"

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Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“I'm the spirit of youth and joy, remember?”

“You're a grown man and a nuisance.”

“I'm your nuisance.”

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Peter Darling by Austin Chant

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"What was below could remain below no longer.

The Nightbreed were rising."

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Cabal by Clive Barker

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"When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville."

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The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

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"I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away."

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Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote