Status Updates From Carmilla

"'Are you afraid, dearest?'
'I should be very much if I fancied there was any real danger of my being attacked as those poor people were.'
'You are afraid to die?'
'Yes, everyone is.'
'But to die as lovers may--to die together, so that they may live together. Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae.'"

"'Doctors never did me any good,' said Carmilla.
'Then you have been ill?' I asked.
'More ill than ever you were,' she answered.
'Long ago?'
'Yes, a long time. I suffered from this very illness; but I forget all except my pain and weakness, and these were not so bad as are suffered in other diseases.'
'You were very young then?'
'I dare say, let us talk no more of it. You would not wound a friend?'"

"'Creator! Nature!' said the young lady. 'And this disease that invades the country is natural. Nature. All things proceed from Nature--don't they? All things in the heaven, in the earth, and under the earth, act and live as Nature ordains? I think so.'"

she talks like amalthea

"'All this,' said my father, 'is strictly referable to natural causes. These poor people infect one another with their superstitions, and so repeat in imagination the images of terror that have infested their neighbors.'"

Don’t they know it’s already legal?