J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Quotes

• “Jusging by the sour glance she threw on me as she said this, I concluded that I represented those 'late changes' to whic...”
• “You are afraid to die?'Yes, everyone is.'But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. Gir...”
• “...and to this hour the image of Carmilla returns to mind with ambiguous alterations--sometimes the playful, languid, be...”
• “I have often wondered since at my own firmness. In that dreadful interview with my uncle I had felt, in the whirl and ho...”
• “Places change imperceptibly – in detail, at least – a good deal,' said the Doctor, making an effort to keep up a convers...”
• “Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantim...”
• “Thus fortified I might take my rest in peace. But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ...”
• “You will do well to take advantage of Madame's short residence to get up your French a little... You will be glad of thi...”
• “I remember everything about it—with an effort. I see it all, as divers see what is going on above them, through a medium...”
• “There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, su...”
• “In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English wa...”
• “But curiosity is a restless and unscrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baf...”
• “No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his...”
• “Have not women preferred hatred to indifference, and the reputation of witchcraft, with all its penalties, to absolute i...”
• “but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffl...”
• “The precautions of nervous people re infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imi...”
• “Although I felt very weak, I did not feel ill; and strength, one always fancies, is a thing that may be picked up when w...”
• “I am afraid we women are factionists; we always take a side, and nature has formed us for advocates rather than judges.”
• “But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”
• “If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours.”
• “You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever.”