“In the shadowed echo of your laughter,
my dearests, lies a deeper tale,
Where light meets dark,
and love contends with the eerie veil.
Your innocence, a stark contrast
to the night's embrace,
Guiding me through the twisted
corridors of this haunted place.”
Source: Silent Screams
“Conformity runs rampant through everyday life, and people want to read about characters that deviate from societal norms.”
“You don’t get it, babe,” he said, still looking at the sky. “World War III already started.”
“A long-lasting relationship isn't about making love every day. It's about making the relationship work every day, with a little love thrown in for good measure.”
Source: Love’s Hidden Keys: Mastering Relationships in Today’s Chaos
“Well, she thought, that big old dawg with the hatred in his eyes had killed her after all.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“The vampire was the third theological concoction made for the culture to drink from the mixologists of religion and the main ingredient of rabies. The vampire throughout the world arose concurrently with the werewolf and its origin again stemmed from the tortures of being “zombies” tied down in the wilderness.”
Source: Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives
“The most lavish prophylaxis against hydrophobia in the hunting hound was carried out, fittingly, by the kings of France. In the hunting accounts of the French palace, historians have found annual outlays for all the king’s hounds to undergo a special ceremony. They were transported to the Church of St. Menier les Moret, in order “to have a mass sung in the presence of the said hounds, and to offer candles in their sight, for fear of the mal de rage”—that is, the disease of rabies. One wonders whether the hounds howled along.”
Source: Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
“Rabies’ residence in people is also, by these standards, accidental, though its inability to spread through humans largely boils down to issues of anatomy and behavior: although the virus does express itself in human saliva, humans lack a propensity to bite and the sharpened teeth with which to do it effectively.”
“Shea eyed him warily. “You aren’t getting ready to bite me again, are you? I’ve got to tell you, there isn’t a place on my body that isn’t sore.” She flashed him a wan smile. “Just out of curiosity, your rabies shots are up to date, aren’t they?”
Source: Dark Desire
“The earliest documented appearance of rabies on our planet has been in Mesopotamia around 2000 B.C. ... The symptoms of rabies were diagnosed throughout history, following its inception, as being a form of undead or cursed type of creature, revenants if you will.”
Source: Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives