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Quotes from Houses Under the Sea — Caitlín R. Kiernan

born 1964 Ireland

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I've seen so goddamn much — I've seen so much that there's no reasonable excuse for looking away, because there can't be anything left that's more terrible than what has come before.

Houses Under the Sea (2007)

I sincerely hope I'm not as big a fool as that. Whatever else I may be, I like to think that I'm not an idiot.

Houses Under the Sea (2007)

The divine is always abominable.

Houses Under the Sea (2007)

Orpheus' mistake wasn't that he turned and looked back towards Eurydice and Hell, but that he ever thought he could escape. Same with Lot's wife. Averting our eyes does not change the fact that we are marked.

Houses Under the Sea (2007)

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