Gothic Romance Quotes

“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
― Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey

“One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies.

“They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.”
― Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey

“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way.”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“I will render you as you really were, neither cast in pristine stained glass or unholy fire. I will make you into nothing more than a man, tender and brutal in equal measure, and perhaps in doing so I will justify myself to you. To my own haunted conscience.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

“Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!”
― Louisa May Alcott

“Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“A human life is a beautiful thing," he said. "You humans.... you feel. You feel so deeply that it consumes you. There were humans I kept a watch over, though I would blink and they'd be fifty, sixty
years older—and the time would come for me to meet them. For the longest time, I pitied them for their short lives. And I admit, Signa, that I have grown more callous with my age. But I have also grown to admire humans. They've such a short time to experience their lives, and so they must feel deeply. They must experience in one life-time things it's taken me an eternity to experience. When I see men like Elijah, rather than feel guilt for what I've done, I remember that he feels sorrow because he loved so deeply. And were I not real, Little Bird, were I not Death, he would never have experienced that love. So which is better? To live forever, or to live and love?”
― Adalyn Grace, Belladonna

“You are not cursed-you are a reaper. You are the night incarnate, the ferrier of souls. You are the bridge between the living and the dead—a caged bird that's ready to fly. So spread your wings, Signa Farrow, because you are limitless. Spread your wings, and oh, how we'll fly.”
― Adalyn Grace, Belladonna

“Don't resent me when I've only just gotten you, please, for I am what makes this world beautiful.”
― Adalyn Grace, Belladonna

“She no longer feared what brewed within her, and
she was done making apologies for who she was. Signa would not just burn; she would ignite.”
― Adalyn Grace, Belladonna

“I dove down deep into your psyche, turning over every word you gave me like a jewel. Looking for meaning, seeking out the mysteries of you. I didn't care if I lost myself in the process. I wanted to be brought by the hand into your world and disappear into your kiss until us two could no longer be told apart.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

“You Just scared me half to death," I said.

"You should be thrilled you're halfway there.”
― Rae Hachton, Pretty In Black

“She says it is a school for bluestockings which, according to her, is really only a fashionable way of saying it is a school for ugly girls who cannot find suitable husbands. To tease her, for I believe it is one of his greatest pleasures in this life, my father bought a pair of blue silk stockings for me the day we received my letter of acceptance. That evening and the next, father and I dined alone.”
― Gwenn Wright, The BlueStocking Girl

“Dying would be normal for me, and one day, I'd be buried beneath a stone, and nothing would matter anymore. It'd be ordinary, like life.

And that terrified me, endlessly.”
― Rae Hachton, Black Satin

“Another tug and a yank at my chestnut curls and she snarls at me, “You are so much like her.”
This is something my mother often says and never explains. Though it is a great mystery to me it is also a blessing, for she always hurries from the room after saying it.”
― Gwenn Wright, The BlueStocking Girl

“It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled by ledgers and currency conversions. I had grossly overestimated him.”
― Gwenn Wright, The BlueStocking Girl

“But there is nothing, no trace that she’s ever existed. She is not here. She will never be here again.
Because of me.”
― Christine Fonseca, Libera Me

“For the sake of your bright eyes, Jem Merlyn.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

“Alek tangled their tongues in a kiss that tasted like salt and the end of everything and it wasn’t enough. Ian could drown him in an ocean of tears and slit their palms in a blood bond, and none of it would ever be enough.”
― Thea Verdone, Never Leave, Never Lie

“My voice was my one beauty, my only power, my only hope; my voice would open a magic pathway into her life. I could not steal her body—but I could steal her voice and weld it irretrievably with mine; I could take it and mold it and make it mine forever, one little part of her that no other man should ever possess. All I had to do was break the silence that stood like a wall between us.”
― Susan Kay, Phantom

“They call him the godfather but they call her .... his wife
and that may be even more dangerous”
― Lorraine Atkin, The Godfaters Wife

“Sometimes it’s better not to know the things that have haunted us our whole lives. It’s better to live among the what ifs and could be’s, so we can make up our own version of perfection.”
― Cadence Smoke, Tether

“She was a fire, burning our house to the ground; but the fire was warm, and all I knew was the cold. I could not leave the flames.”
― Vinny Valachi, A Kiss of Blood and Roses: Carmilla Reimagined

“Jack’s voice is soft as moonlight, deep as the darkest cavern. He tips up my chin, getting black paint all over the both of us, but I couldn’t possibly care less. “You know, with you in this costume, you might be in danger of making me fall in love with you all over again.”
Our lips come together, slow and sweet, like we’ve captured the spark of a star between us. His hands cradle my face. For a moment, the wind in the trees and the owls overhead fall quiet— it’s just us and our love knitted over time.”
― Megan Shepherd, Shadow over the Pumpkin Queen

“He is often remembered as the great lover who braved the underworld. But that is the flattering version. The crueler version is that Eurydice is asked to follow him out without explanation, without reassurance, without being told why trust has become the only bridge between death and life.”
― Erika Killen, After the Last Sunrise: Book One of the Last Sunrise Trilogy

“I would want more years with you. I would hate the danger required to get them. I know what it is to watch someone I love grow old while I do not. I also know that those years were still worth having.”
― Erika Killen, A Distance Measured

“You may need another position one day. You may wish to enter a shop without someone deciding your reputation before you speak. You may wish to refuse me and not have half the county tell you that refusal came too late.”
― Erika Killen, A Distance Measured

“Regret does not mean I chose incorrectly,” she said. “I can grieve a life I did not live and still love the one I have.” Ronan said nothing. His fingers closed around hers. “You would have been a good mother,” he said.”
― Erika Killen

“Do you remember what I told you? I'll walk the jagged path with you. Even if it's the death of me.”
― Link NightWolf, The NightWolf Chronicles: The Jagged Path