Emily E

“... My mother, daroga, my poor, unhappy mother would never... let me kiss her... She used to run away... and throw me my mask!... Nor any other woman... ever, ever!... Ah, you can understand, my happiness was so great, I cried. And fell at her feet, crying... and I kissed her feet... her little feet... crying. You're crying, too, daroga... and she cried also... the angel cried!...”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“Then I made her understand that, where she was concerned, I was only a poor dog, ready to die for her. But that she could marry the young man she pleased because she had cried with me, and mingled her tears with mine. ~ Erik”
― Gaston Leroux

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

“Nobody could see the ghost in his box, but everybody could hear him.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera