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“All beauty must have its imperfections, all happiness its share of sorrow.”
― Susan Kay, Phantom

“I hope you'll never become so good at building walls that you can't see when they need to be pulled down.”
― Susan Kay, Das Phantom: Die bisher ungeschriebene Lebensgeschichte des "Phantoms der Oper"

“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.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“I am going to die of love....daroga....I am dying of love .... That's how it is... I loved her so! And I love her still...daroga.....and I am dying of love for her, I tell you! if you knew how beautiful she was when she let me kiss her...It was the first ...time, daroga, the first time I ever kissed a woman.. Yes, alive... I kissed her alive.... And she looked as beautiful as if she had been dead!”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera