At Dark, I Become Loathsome
Quotes from the Book
What are you afraid of?” he asked. “Letting go, or being left with nothing to hold?
All people are like that. Eager consumers of someone else’s pain. Whether they know it or not. Why deny them what they want?
From baby teeth to virginity, to live is to regularly suffer loss. However, I scarcely expected to love everything I've ever loved in a single moment.
I watched as blood swirled down my naked body in dark ribbons—tiny threads that had forever come undone from me and were sent to freedom.
If you hold onto a rope long enough, it’ll pull you with it. I’ve been holding onto one my whole life.
We can never leave this place," my mother told her. "It would hurt too much.
We can never leaves this places," my mother told her. "It would hurt to much.
It was when I nearly died during a performance that I realized they preferred to instead witness my suffering. All people are like that. Eager consumers of someone else's pain. Whether they know it or not. Why deny them what they want?
How could you do this to me?' the creature asked. And the blind man said, 'I wanted to be the only one to hurry you.
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At Dark, I Become Loathsome
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"When you're given a gift, something else gets taken away."
A precocious young girl with an unusual imagination is sent on an odyssey into the depths of depravity. After her father dies violently, young Mara is surprised to find her mother welcoming a new guest into their home, claiming that he will protect them from the world of devastation and destruction outside their door.
A grotesque and thrilling dark fantasy, We Can Never Leave This Place is a harrowing portrait of inherited grief and familial trauma.
"We Can Never Leave This Place is the apocalyptic 21st century Grimm's fairy tale you need in your life. Eric LaRocca plucks images directly from the muck and mire of our id and fashions them into something grotesquely beautiful." Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and The Pallbearers Club
"We Can Never Leave This Place is a bleak and tender, monst
Book details
- First published
- 2022
- Author
- Eric LaRocca
- Genre
- Horror
- Goodreads rating
- 3.47 (4k ratings)
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