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Love Quote by Kim Elizabeth

"My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood"

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Imagination here isn’t a cute creative quirk; it’s a possessive force, a handler. “Completely controls me” flips the usual artist myth (I use my imagination) into something closer to compulsion (it uses me). That reversal is the engine of the passage: it frames writing not as self-expression but as self-survival, a way of keeping a private blaze fed.

The “dark red light” is doing double duty. Red suggests romance and appetite, but “dark” stains it with menace. She’s describing a heart that glows like an ember rather than a beacon - heat without comfort. When she says imagination brings “the best dreams,” the subtext is that the dreams are best because they’re dangerous: fantasies that flirt with love and horror at the same time. It’s the gothic tradition updated into a confessional register, where the supernatural isn’t outside the body but “in my blood.”

The triad - “wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul” - is a self-mythology, the kind writers build to justify their chosen terrain. It’s also a bid for permission: if the darkness is innate, then dark fantasy isn’t indulgence, it’s authenticity. The context is a contemporary culture that treats genre as identity. She’s not just describing what she writes; she’s staking out a temperament, telling readers to expect intensity, melodrama, and emotional risk - and to read the horror as an extension of love, not its opposite.

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Kim Elizabeth is a Writer.

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