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“Excellent writing reaches beyond station and rank to grab hold of people and not let go.”
― Riyoko Ikeda, The Rose of Versailles, Omnibus 2

“I am human, a woman with a living, beating heart first, before I am queen!!”
― Riyoko Ikeda, The Rose of Versailles, Omnibus 2

“Oscar François. You truly are a woman. Fearsome…”
― Riyoko Ikeda, The Rose of Versailles, Omnibus 2

“While I can still see, I have to memorize this.”
― Riyoko Ikeda, The Rose of Versailles, Omnibus 3

“If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But he was too ugly! And he had to hide his genius or use it to play tricks with, when, with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar. Ah, yes, we must need pity the Opera ghost...”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“Our lives are one masked ball.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“But do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine?”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“Holy angel, in Heaven blessed,
My spirit longs with thee to rest”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“Does he love you so much?" "He would commit murder for me.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“I am the little boy who went into the sea to rescue your scarf”
― gaston leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“There is some music that is so terrible that it consumes all those who approach it.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“when a man", continued Raoul,"adopts such romantic methods to entice a young girl's affections. .."

"The man must be either a villain, or the girl a fool: is that it?”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“Music has the power to make one forget everything save those sounds that touch your heart.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“Are people so unhappy when they love?”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“Love me and you'll see! To be good, all I ever needed was to be loved. If you loved me, I'd be gentle as a lamb and you could do whatever you pleased with me.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“His horrible, unique, and repulsive ugliness put him beyond the pale of humanity, and it had often been apparent to me that for this reason he no longer felt he had any obligations to the human race.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“Christine, we will go from here together or die together. ~ Raoul”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“I am mistress of my own actions, M. de Chagny: you have no right to control them, and I will beg you to desist henceforth.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“As long as you thought me handsome, you could have come back, I know you would have come back.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“He asked only to be ‘someone,’ like everybody else.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“My lies were as hideous as the monster that had inspired them”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“Often he would play his saddest tunes on the beach and pretend that the sea stopped its roaring to listen to them.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“No one ever sees the angel; but he is heard by those who are meant to hear him.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera