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“The moon, this night," she said, "is full of idyllic and magnetic influence - and see, when you look behind you at the front of the schloss how all its windows flash and twinkle with that silvery splendor, as if unseen hands had lighted up the rooms to receive fairy guests.”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.”
― Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein