Veni, Vidi, Vici

"It's [writing] a very powerful feeling. It's like being a little god, manipulating a small world. You are furnishing the houses. You are making the whole milieu and giving life to the characters. And you can wipe them out—and sometimes, after they die, I bring them back to life, not supernaturally but through believable things. How many people can do that? I like that feeling, because I can live so many other lives. I have an uncle who came and said, 'What do you write about, the things that you miss in your life? Things you can fulfill in your books?' And I said no, because a lot of the things that happen in my books, I wouldn't want to have happen to me. But I enjoy the awful things, because they are kind of fun."

a storm of swords, george r.r. martin. / flowers in the attic, v.c. andrews.

the gods heard my prayer, she thought. she felt so numb and dreamy. my skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.

Complicated Women in Literature I Love (1/?): Catherine "Cathy" Leigh Dollanganger

DOLL HOUSES IN GOTHIC FICTION

random list of my favourite characters — catherine ‘cathy’ dollanganger (dollanganger series)

"When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone."

"What fools we were, who thought ourselves so wise! The error crept in from the translation. Dragons are neither male nor female, Barth saw the truth of that, but now one and now the other, as changeable as flame. The language misled us all for a thousand years. Daenerys is the one, born amidst salt and smoke. The dragons prove it."

"Her coming is the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy. From smoke and salt was she born to make the world anew. She is Azor Ahai returned... and her triumph over darkness will bring a summer that will never end... death itself will bend its knee, and all those who die fighting in her cause shall be reborn ..."