A Dowry of Blood
S.T. Gibson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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 suffering under an early spring sun, a chalk ledger of depts being wiped clean. I say you do not have a name.”
“You could have kissed me or slit my throat and either would have made as much sense.”
“You liked me best when I was like an oil painting; perfectly arranged and silent.”
“This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession. I suppose both are a sort of gentle violence, putting down in ink what scorches the air when spoken aloud.”
“War is the whetstone that grinds down all sense, all humanity.”
“I made you into my private Christ, supplicated with my own dark devotions. Nothing existed beyond the range of your exacting gaze, not even me. I was simply a non-entity when you weren't looking at me, an empty vessel waiting to be filled by the sweet water of your attention. A woman can't live like that, my Lord. No one can. Don't ask me why I did it. God, forgive me. Christ, forgive me.”
“Even loneliness, hollow and cold, becomes so familiar it starts to feel like a friend.”
“I will render you as you really were, neither cast in pristine stained glass or unholy fire. I will make you into nothing more than a man, tender and brutal in equal measure, and perhaps in doing so I will justify myself to you. To my own haunted conscience.”
“People aren’t meant to live forever. I know that now.”
“I was tried of being your Magdalene. I was tried of waiting expectantly at your tomb every night for you to rise and bring light into my world once again.”
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Book Keywords:
life, sad-love, dracula, immortality, gothic-romance, strong-woman
