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“Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.”
“Poetry and visions, springing as they do from an ever-present sense of mortality, might easily appear morbid to the sturdycommon sense of a burgher-class in the making.”
“You see the world in colors,I see in Black and Red.”
“Good evening, you poor little Orphans of a Loveless God. Good evening to you blood sucking fools.”
“In those few words you've summed up my life - my reason for existence. It's you. Any pain I've suffered, the mistakes I've made, the path laid out for me have all led here - to you.”
“I'm yours, for eternity!”
“Eternity," I repeated, the words burning into my brain, so much so it felt we'd made some form of sacred and unbreakable bond.”
“If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.”
“It was enough to drive me mad. I was no longer myself and yet I was so much more me than I had ever been before. ~Katherine Demure”
“And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention womens rights. As she sees it, it will be so much more difficult to marry me off if I am not only of a weak constitution...”
“I came from across the ocean and through the wilderness and landed here and found you hiding behind a tapestry. My fate was sealed at the sight of your stockinged feet.~Viktor von Strassenberg”
“There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.”
“I have learned one lesson in all this and I will share it knowing it will do no one any good. The lesson is this: "There are none more complicit in one's undoing than one's own heart".”
“This apartment, which you no doubt profanely suppose to be the shop of Will Wimble the undertaker --a man whom we know not, and whose plebeian appellation has never before this night thwarted our r...”
“It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.”
“The cabin in the woods is to the American Gothic what the haunted castle is to the European - the seed from which everything else ultimately grows.”
“There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.”
“I shall challenge all authority. Question all who claim dominion over me. I am not a thoughtless being but a man with his own beliefs.”
“I'm not here to change the world, just your perception of it.”
“Laying here in my grave..at last.. I am finally alone.”