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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: frankenstein, gothic, horror, mary-shelley
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    Mervyn Peake
    “This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.”
    ― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
    tags: castle, description, gothic, owl, purple, ruin, tower
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    Emily Brontë
    “I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: gothic, heathcliff
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    J. Sheridan Le Fanu
    “If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours.”
    ― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
    tags: classic, fiction, gothic, vampires
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    Grant Morrison
    “I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.”
    ― Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
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    “Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –”
    ― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
    tags: abandon, cardew, castle, destroy, destroyed, devastated, everybody, everyone, fear, fiction, force, fort, fortress, freya, general, ghost, gothic, gothic-romance, image, inside, king, mask, mysterious, mystery, no-one, nobody, outside, play, power, powerful, present, pretend, queen, romance, ruin, ruins, self-image, strength, strong, stronghold, suspense, weak, weakness, young-adult
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    Silvia Moreno-Garcia
    “The world might indeed be a cursed circle; the snake swallowed its tail and there could be no end, only an eternal ruination and endless devouring.”
    ― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic
    tags: dark, gothic, mexico
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    Marcus Sedgwick
    “If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.”
    ― Marcus Sedgwick
    tags: gothic, poem
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    Bernie Mcgill
    “Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.”
    ― Bernie Mcgill, The Butterfly Cabinet
    tags: gothic, historical-fiction, ireland, irish, literary-fiction, mother, passion, secret, victorian
    161 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: dickens, uncle-tom-s-cabin, victorian, wilde, witty
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “O, we poor orphans of nothing- alone on that lonely shore-
    Born of the brainless Nature who knew not that which she bore!”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
    tags: atheism, nature, victorian
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    Ann Granger
    “All life was here. With respectable citizens mixed beggars – who made their trade obvious – and pickpockets – who did not.”
    ― Ann Granger, The Dead Woman of Deptford
    tags: historical, mystery, victorian
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