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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177064 likes

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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
    1295 likes

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  • #3
    James Rollins
    “Books are keys that open many doors.”
    ― James Rollins
    tags: action-thriller, blood-gospel, city-of-screams, contemporary-fiction, epic-fantasy, fantasy, gothic-thriller, historical-thriller, james-clemens, james-rollins, medical-thriller, mystery, mystery-thriller, rebecca-cantrell, romantic-suspense, sanguines, science-fiction, science-thriller, sigma-force, thriller, ure
    183 likes

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  • #4
    J. Sheridan Le Fanu
    “But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”
    ― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
    tags: carmilla, classic, gothic, horror, joseph-sheridan-le-fanu
    398 likes

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  • #5
    Vladimir Odoyevsky
    “The soulless have no need of melancholia”
    ― Vladimir Odoyevsky, The Salamander and Other Gothic Tales
    tags: depression, melancholy
    155 likes

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  • #6
    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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  • #7
    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
    131 likes

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  • #8
    Louise Rennison
    “Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind.”
    ― Louise Rennison, Away Laughing on a Fast Camel
    tags: humor
    86 likes

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  • #9
    Derek Landy
    “You say one more thing that sounds like it's ripped from the pages of a really bad gothic romance and I'm out of here, are we clear?" - Valkyrie Cain”
    ― Derek Landy, Death Bringer
    80 likes

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  • #10
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything.”
    ― Joyce Carol Oates, First Love: A Gothic Tale
    81 likes

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  • #11
    “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
    109 likes

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  • #12
    Silvia Moreno-Garcia
    “Books, moonlight, melodrama.”
    ― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic
    128 likes

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  • #13
    Barry Eysman
    “It was so close to October that Halloween was knocking at his heart.”
    ― Barry Eysman, Candles For November
    68 likes

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  • #14
    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
    236 likes

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  • #15
    “I’d love to try to tame you... And I would simply adore it if you turn out untamable –”
    ― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
    tags: cardew, danger, dangerous, freya, goth, gothic, gothic-mystery, gothic-romance, love, loved, mystery, provocative, provoke, relationship, romance, romantic, sexy, tame, tamed, tease, tempt, temptation, tempting, untamable, young-adult
    50 likes

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  • #16
    Novala Takemoto
    “I have a, shall we say, morbid personality.”
    ― Novala Takemoto, Missin' (Novel)
    tags: gothic
    45 likes

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  • #17
    “Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –”
    ― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
    tags: alive, beautiful, black, cemetery, dark, darkness, dead, death, divination, female, fortune-telling, girl, goth, gothic, gothic-romance, grave, graveyard, hide, horrifying, horror, life, live, living, look, lurk, mysterious, mystery, mystify, mystifying, occult, occultism, old, old-witch, ominous, pretty, scare, scared, scary, sinister, still-alive, still-dead, suspense, witch, woman, young-adult, young-adult-book, young-adult-suspense
    36 likes

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  • #18
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!”
    ― Louisa May Alcott
    tags: gothic-romance, obsession
    46 likes

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  • #19
    “And what if you try to kill me? Or worse: to kiss me?”
    ― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
    tags: attract, attractive, bad, beautiful, beauty, best, better, boy, cardew, danger, dangerous, female, freya, game, girl, good, goth, gothic, handsome, kill, kill-me, kiss, kiss-me, love, male, man, play, playful, provocative, provoke, relationship, relationships, romantic, secret, secretive, sexy, sin, sinful, tease, tempt, temptation, tempted, tempting, what-if, woman, worse, worst, young, young-adult, young-adult-gothic-romance, young-adult-romance, youthful
    34 likes

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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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  • #21
    “So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –”
    ― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
    tags: ancient, boy, cast-runes, casting-runes, danger, dangerous, dead, death, divination, divine, druid, flirt, forbid, forbidden, fortune, fortune-teller, fortune-telling, future, girl, goth, gothic, gothic-romance, haunt, haunted, human, lie, magic, magician, medieval, mysterious, mystery, occult, occultism, ominous, predict, prediction, provocative, provoke, rite, ritual, romance, romantic, rune, runes, sacrifice, sacrifices, sinister, straightforward, suspense, tell-the-fortune, torment, tormenting, tormentor, torture, torturing, truth, wicca, witch, young-adult, young-adult-gothic-romance, young-adult-romance
    23 likes

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  • #22
    Bram Stoker
    “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
    ― Bram Stoker
    tags: dracula
    2411 likes

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  • #23
    James Frey
    “Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work. ”
    ― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
    1456 likes

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  • #24
    Salman Rushdie
    “Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
    tags: face, honesty, mask, people
    215 likes

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  • #25
    Jim Butcher
    “I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.”
    ― Jim Butcher, Vignette
    tags: bob-the-skull, harry-dresden, humor
    139 likes

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  • #26
    Sylvia Plath
    “The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: 18-april
    118 likes

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    R.L. LaFevers
    “I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull.”
    ― R.L. LaFevers, Grave Mercy
    tags: ismae
    106 likes

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  • #28
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?”
    ― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
    tags: philosophy, tragedy
    127 likes

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  • #29
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
    tags: anatomy, morbid, moriarty, science, sherlock, skull, study
    121 likes

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  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor
    7634 likes



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