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🍖 Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

"He stared at the human meat, pink and tender. There was no more hiding what it was. No euphemisms to shroud the truth. A perfect cut, seasoned with rosemary and salt. The knife slid through the flesh as though it were butter."

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🟥 The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

"This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary."

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🔥 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

"I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have."

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🌪 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

"Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable!"

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🩸 The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

"The turquoise eyes of the dolphin taps winked at me derisively; they knew my husband had been too clever for me!"

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🐅 The Tiger’s Bride (The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories) by Angela Carter

"The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers."

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🏰 The Lady of the House of Love (The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories) by Angela Carter

"She is so beautiful she is unnatural; her beauty is an abnormality, a deformity. She has a special quality of virginity, most strangely, unknowing, in her relation to the world. It is as if her beauty were kept for her in some profound darkness, and the sureness of her touch is also her blindness."


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🦖 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

"God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs."

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🩸 I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan

"Someone knows. Someone saw us. Someone is going to make us pay. We killed a man, and now we have to face the consequences."

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🦇 Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

"You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me and still come with me, and hating me through death and after."

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💻 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

"Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer-thin layers that fill my complex. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles, it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate."

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💻 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison (Bonus quote because this one's also super cool)

"Cogito ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. I think, therefore I suffer."

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⛪ The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

"When a man does wrong, he should do all the wrong he can; it is madness to stop half-way in crime!"

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⚖️ Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

"If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned! You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it."

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🐞 The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. He was lying on his hard, as it were, armor-plated back, and when he lifted his head a little, he could see his dome-like brown belly divided into stiff arched segments."

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🐈 If Cats Disappeared From the World by Genki Kawamura

"The world doesn't change on its own. It changes because you make the decision to change it. Everything begins there. If we can accept the small losses in life, we’ll be able to move forward and discover the happiness that lies in the choices we make."

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🎈 It by Stephen King

"We all float down here!"

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⚰️ Pet Sematary by Stephen King

"Sometimes dead is better."

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🌌 All Tomorrows by C.M. Kosemen

"The Qu did not see their conquests as cruelty. To them, it was art. An expression of will upon a canvas of flesh and bone, sculpting entire civilizations as one would mold clay."

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🎭 The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

"If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me."

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🔥 Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

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🏚️ The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

"There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart—an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime."

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💡 The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

"True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"

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👑 King Lear by William Shakespeare

"O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper; I would not be mad!"

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🌫️ The Russian Sleep Experiment by OrangeSoda

"Have you forgotten so easily? We are you. We are the madness that lurks within you all, begging to be free at every moment in your deepest animal mind. We are what you hide from in your beds every night. We are what you sedate into silence and paralysis when you go to the nocturnal haven where we cannot tread."

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👁️ 1984 by George Orwell

"Big Brother is watching you."

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🧠 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

"I am alone and miserable: man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. This being you must create."
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👁️ The Rake by Brian Somerville

"He came to me in my sleep. From the foot of my bed, I felt a sensation. He took everything. We must return to England. We shall not come here again at the request of the Rake."

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💉 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

"With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two."

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🦇 Dracula by Bram Stoker

"There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fear. I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips."

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🏰 The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

"But alas! my Lord, what is blood! what is nobility! We are all reptiles, miserable, sinful creatures. It is piety alone that can distinguish us from the dust whence we sprung, and whither we must return."

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🐾 The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells

"An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie."

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🪞 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

"He seized the thing, and stabbed the picture with it. There was a cry heard, and a crash. The cry was so horrible in its agony that the frightened servants woke and crept out of their rooms. When they entered, they found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage."