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🩸📚 Quotes from horror literature
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Hello there. This is just a little space for me to catalog my favorite quotes from my favorite genre. Follow along if you like and feel free to tag me in sharing your own.

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February 9, 2026 at 11:11 PM
“Spirits like her are not drawn to the happy and carefree; they want salt, be it blood or be it tears.”

- My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen

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February 10, 2026 at 10:28 AM
“Nobody ever really expects a serial killer with nice tits.”

Sister, Maiden, Monster by @lucyasnyder.bsky.social

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February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
“We weave warmth from their hair, make trinkets with their teeth. We keep their names alive with our winnowing songs. There is beauty in the body, even in its winter, even in its season of death.”

- A Girl Walks into the Forest by @authoroux.bsky.social

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January 30, 2026 at 1:49 PM
“I can’t tell whether I want to laugh or cry, so we eat instead.”

- She Is a Haunting by @nvtran.bsky.social

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January 28, 2026 at 11:30 AM
“The enemy of the shadow isn’t light. It’s sight.”

The Jackal by @iameeadams.bsky.social

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January 26, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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“What beauty he did not see in them, I will return to him as pain.”

-A Girl Walks into the Forest by Madeleine Roux

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January 10, 2026 at 1:07 AM
“It is always interesting to see how often women are described as ravenous when it is the men who, without exception, take without thought of compensation.”

-The Salt Grows Heavy by @casskhaw.bsky.social

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January 23, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Four movies I would grab from the Criterion closet
January 23, 2026 at 3:51 AM
“To want is to be bewitched, I’ve long thought. If it’s beautiful or sweet, it will ruin you.”

- How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann

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January 22, 2026 at 2:57 PM
“Normal is a bitter pill that we rail against.”

- The Drowning Girl by @caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social

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January 20, 2026 at 9:38 PM
“…if the men responsible for this carnage intended it for some greater purpose, then their means had hopelessly defiled their ends.”

The Fisherman by @johnlangan.bsky.social

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January 19, 2026 at 2:12 PM
“Maybe the true horror of the werewolf is that the change is never permanent.”

- When the Wolf Comes Home by
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January 18, 2026 at 5:58 PM
“There comes a point in life when you’ve seen so much that hardly anything surprises you or bothers you, and that’s a shitty moment. Wisdom is so terribly overrated.”

The Hike by @drewmagary.bsky.social

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January 17, 2026 at 7:10 PM
“Horror was rooted in sympathy, after all, in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.”

Heart Shaped Box by @joe-hill.bsky.social

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January 16, 2026 at 9:07 PM
“Being attacked over and over, it hasn't weakened her, it's cut away her restraints. The slasher thought he was tormenting her. He thought he was the one in charge. Wrong. He was fashioning his own death. He was building the perfect killing machine.”

- My Heart Is a Chainsaw by @sgj.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 3:25 PM
“They all want to live 'in harmony with nature' before some of them realize, too late, that nature is anything but harmonious.”

Devolution by @maxbrooks.bsky.social

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January 14, 2026 at 5:31 PM
“It was so hard, sorting through what was left of me when I cut off the parts that existed for others.”

-The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by @kierstenwhite.bsky.social

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January 14, 2026 at 2:04 AM
“My heart is a dark passage, lined with ranks of gleaming jars. In each one something floats. The past, preserved as if in spirit.“

- Little Eve by @catrionaward.bsky.social

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January 12, 2026 at 1:14 PM
“But that’s America, I guess. Everything stolen. Stolen stories, stolen names, stolen dreams, and stolen people. Bury your victims and build on top of them.”

-Black River Orchard by @chuckwendig.bsky.social

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January 11, 2026 at 6:11 PM
“Humans like to put their mouths on the things they love.”

- Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth

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January 10, 2026 at 10:40 PM
“What beauty he did not see in them, I will return to him as pain.”

-A Girl Walks into the Forest by Madeleine Roux

@authoroux.bsky.social

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January 10, 2026 at 1:07 AM
“I’m a director,” he says. “Ahh,” I say. “I only watch porn.”

- Maeve Fly by CJ Leede
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January 9, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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January 8, 2026 at 1:43 AM
“The soil of this continent is a mound of congealed blood and shredded, whipped flesh that is tilled century after century with an iron rake of hate.”

- Queen of the Cicadas by V. Castro

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January 8, 2026 at 4:11 PM