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“No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,�� he said frankly. “And books, they offer hope �� that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe one is saved.”
― Anne Rice, Blackwood Farm

“Ferox et stultus," I said, grinning. "perhaps those are the Howel words as well."
"No, yours would be I have a brilliant plan, followed by Blackwood moaning in horror.”
― Jessica Cluess, A Poison Dark and Drowning

“I know your mind, and I swear to God if you take it upon yourself to go to him, I will drag you home even if it kills me. Do you hear?�� His eyes shone with panic. “I'll never let him have you.”
― Jessica Cluess, A Poison Dark and Drowning

“When I had your friendship, I thought I could never want for anything more. But over time, I have come to feel for you beyond anything I thought I could.”
― Jessica Cluess, A Poison Dark and Drowning

“Despite everything - your lies, your wounds, I cannot help but love you. I'm helpless against it.”
― Jessica Cluess, A Poison Dark and Drowning

“They talked trees from morning till night. It stirred in her the old subconscious trail of dread, a trail that led ever into the darkness of big woods; and such feelings, as her early evangelical training taught her, were temptings. To regard them in any other way was to play with danger.”
― Algernon Blackwood

“I would do most anything to make you happy, Howel, if you'd let me. I would become your servant, lay whatever you wanted at your feet.”
― Jessica Cluess, A Poison Dark and Drowning