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"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."

-- Virginia C. Andrews (1985 interview for Douglas E. Winter's Faces of Fear)

ivorysansa

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.

where was that fragile, golden-fair dresden doll i used to be? gone. gone like porcelain turned into steel-made into someone who would always get what she wanted, no matter who or what stood in her way.

dorothygalewrites

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

"We lived in the attic: Christopher, Carrie, Cory, and me. Now there's just three."

snailmailthings

DOLL HOUSES IN GOTHIC FICTION

Flowers in the Attic, V. C. Andrews (1979) / Sharp Objects dir. Jean-Marc Vallée (2018)

misandriste

BLACK SWAN 2010, dir. Darren Aronofsky

zoecravitz

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

“I would also like to raise a toast to Corrine. I was also at the Foxworth Christmas Party 12 years ago. See, my brothers and sister and I lived in the attic, locked up by our Grandmother. Kept hidden away like a dirty little secret by your dazzling hostess, our mother. I see that you’re shocked to learn Corrine actually has children, had children in the case of my two younger siblings.”

girl-bateman

Flowers in the Attic (1987), Dir. Jeffrey Bloom

mariahxcarey

Butterfly

leliodelenfent

Sé mi compañero, Louis. Sé todo lo bello que eres, y sélo sin disculparte. Por toda la eternidad.

ciricearts

wakey wakey it’s time for school

robin-vb

My babies

daenerys-stormborn

"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 ..."

— George R. R. Martin, A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE