Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.
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I'm sorry,' she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, 'I'm sorry Courtney. I'm sorry Marcus. I'm sorry Rachel. I'm sorry Jon. I'm sorry I'm alive and you're dead. I'm sorry I was asleep. I'm sorry I didn't save you and now I'm taking your things. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Holly BlackTag: books romance literature dark paranormal-romance vampires paranormal beautiful ya holly-black gavriel tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown
Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?
Holly BlackTag: books romance literature dark paranormal-romance vampires paranormal beautiful ya holly-black gavriel tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown
Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly, "Oh no. No."
"Leave me," said Gavriel.
....."Shut up or I might," she told him.
Tag: books romance literature dark paranormal-romance vampires paranormal beautiful ya holly-black gavriel tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown
Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
Holly BlackTag: books romance literature dark paranormal-romance vampires paranormal beautiful ya holly-black gavriel tana-bach the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown
Narratives are universally used for mediating emotional experiences. The purpose of aesthetic objects has been defined, in part, as 'the awakening, intensifying, or maintaining of definite emotional states' (Lee, 1913: 99–100). When we read or hear stories, we put aside our own goals and plans, and we temporarily replace our own goals and plans with those of the story characters.
Mikkel WallentinTag: literature psychology narratology scientific-study-of-literature
...empathy is the driving force behind the experience of emotions in narratives (Keen, 2006; Mar et al., 2006; Oatley, 2011).
Mikkel WallentinTag: literature psychology narratology
Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
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More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
Helen KellerTag: words reading books literature
A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning’s flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself,--and not a taper lighted at the hearth-stone of the race, which pales before the light of common day.
Henry David ThoreauTag: words reading books knowledge nature literature perfection
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