26 Quotes About Gothic-literature

I had the view of a castle of romance inhabited by a rosy spirit, such a place as would somehow, for diversion of the young idea, take all colour out of story-books and fairy-tales. Was n't it just a story-book over which I had fallen a-doze and a-dream?

I took a deep, deep breath and held it in my core; kept it close behind my protruding, fleshless ribs. I swallowed it whole. I was home.

Scar tissue does more than flaunt its strength by chronicling the assaults it has withstood. Scar tissue is new growth. And it is tougher than skin innocent of the blade.

Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me?

I knew that soundwell too. It was the beating of the old man’s heart. Itincreased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates thesoldier into courage.

would a madman have been so wise as this?

To be everywhere at once and to know everybody was, after all, but to slip the cables of the tiny, separate self, and experience the Whole. Hence the desire to be elsewhere and otherwise. Hence, too, the innate yearning to share experiences of all kinds with others.

I made up my mind to take the life of the oldman, and thus rid myself of the eye for ever.