#tcgicedit

"sometimes there are stories in the news about little kids who do bad things because they didn't know any better. it's not the kid's fault. except that it is, really, only no one wants to say it. who else is there to blame? the kid is the one who disobeyed, the one who stole the keys and unlocked all the locks and almost let the bad thing out."

                     “You are more dangerous than daybreak.”                                                    ― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Vampires were fairy tales and magic. They were the wolf in the forest that ran ahead to grandmother’s house, the video game big boss who could be hunted without guilt, the monster that tempted you into its bed, the powerful eternal beast one might become. The beautiful dead, la belle mort.

If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.

“clever girl. you play with fire because you want to be burnt.”

clever girl. you play with fire because you want to be burnt.

We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it

and if after gorging themselves in an orgy of death, they became less lovely, if they became bloated and purple and horrible, then they hid it well.