Ella Koskela

“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

“bodies laid out, poor and broken, living and dead. Strange, she thinks, perhaps even perverse, that we are denied the measure of ourselves that we may take of others.”
― A.K. Blakemore, The Glutton

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

“I wish our story could have had another ending.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After