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“I have heard it said that hearts inflamed by obstacles to their desire grew cold in time of security.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Look, my Lord! see, Heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!”

“Heaven nor Hell shall impede my designs,” said Manfred, advancing again to seize the Princess.”
― Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

“The most obvious stylistic feature common to both Poe and Lovecraft is the use of adjectives. In Lovecraft’s case this has been derisively termed “adjectivitis,” as if there is some canonical number of adjectives per square inch that are permissible and that the slightest excess is cause for frenzied condemnation. But this sort of criticism is merely a holdover from an outmoded and superficial realism that vaunted the barebones style of a Hemingway or a Sherwood Anderson as the sole acceptable model for English prose.”
― S.T. Joshi, I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft

“Often, every daybreak, alone I must bewail my cares. There's now no one living to whom I dare mumble my mind's understanding.”
― Jonathan Glenn, The Wanderer