“You must never overthink any good and pleasurable thing.” LifePleasureVampireDraculaConstantaSt Gibson Book:A Dowry of Blood Source: A Dowry of Blood
“Desire makes idiots of all of us. But you already knew that part, didn't you?” DesireLustSad LoveDracula Book:A Dowry of Blood Source: A Dowry of Blood
“You did not let me keep my name, so I will strip you of yours. In this world, you are what I say you are, and I say you are a ghost, a long night's fever dream that I have finally woken up from. I say you are the smoke-wisp memory of a flame, thawing ice under an early spring sun, a chalk ledger of debts being wiped clean. I say you do not have a name.” LovePhilosophyVampire RomanceWoman S StrengthScorned Women Society Book:A Dowry of Blood Source: A Dowry of Blood
“She kissed me with a martyr’s agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on. I kissed her right back like the cutting edge of a blade, trying to inflict as much damage as possible.” Romantic Book:An Education in Malice Source: An Education in Malice
“In this world, you are what I say you are, and I say you are a ghost, a long night's fever dream that I have finally woken up from. I say you are the smoke-wisp memory of a flame, thawing ice suffering under an early spring sun, a chalk ledger of debts being wiped clean. I say you do not have a name.” SadnessStrong WomenDracula Author:S.T. Gibson
“I wasn't in the habit of confessing my sapphic proclivities as a sin, since I didn't consider them to be one, but my idolatry of Carmilla definitely counted as something worth confessing.” ReligionSinIdolatryLesbianLgbtqiaWlw Book:An Education in Malice Source: An Education in Malice
“(...) all my carefully crafted excuses for you dissolved like sugar under absinthe, revealing a truth I had spent centuries avoiding.” ExcusesAvoidance Of Reality Book:A Dowry of Blood Source: A Dowry of Blood
“Appropriate. The absurdity of the word struck me and I almost scoffed aloud. What, if anything, in our life was appropriate? We killed to live, we lied and cheated and took lovers, we slipped from town to town like ghosts, draining the populace of their money and blood before moving on. Not a month ago we had brought two young men home with us from the streets and taken our pleasure with them before draining them dry in our wedding bed. I had given up appropriate when I had given up my ability to eat mortal food, to walk abroad in the sun.” Appropriateness Book:A Dowry of Blood Source: A Dowry of Blood
“It seemed strange to me, to suddenly be so protective of the rights of refusal of a girl I was dying to sink my teeth into, a girl who would probably love to see me crawl and beg and suffer. But I decided on the spot that if I was going to be a monster, I was going to be an elegant one, like my beloved De Lafontaine. There was no sense descending into an animalistic frenzy without the full agreement of my blood donor; there was no art in it, no beauty. And I would die before I sacrificed art and beauty. Life simply wasn't worth living if it wasn't by those principles.” VampireVampiresConsentVampire RomanceSapphicLgtbqSapphic RomanceConsent Is SexySapphic HorrorAn Education In Malice Author:S.T. Gibson
“He looked as he always did: slightly underfed, terminally scholastic, and two weeks overdue for a haircut.” IntelligentRhysNerdScholastic Book:Evocation Source: Evocation
“David crossed his arms. “And what does a second in command do, exactly?” “Whatever I need him to.” “You’re trying to hire me to be your lapdog.” “No, I’m asking you to be my guard dog.” Guard DogLapdog Book:Evocation Source: Evocation
“Those years are a dark smear across my memory. Everything feels blurry and hollow. Plague drains not only victims but whole cities of life. It freezes trade, decays parishes, forbids lovemaking, turns childrearing into a dance with death. Most of all, it steals time. Days boarded up in sick houses or clean, pass in a swirl of flat gray. Plague time is different. It stretches and looms.” TimePlague Book:A Dowry of Blood Source: A Dowry of Blood