For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt myself a changed girl. A strange melancholy was stealing over me, a melancholy that I would not have interrupted. Dim thoughts of death began to open, and an idea that I was slowly sinking took gentle, and, somehow, not unwelcome possession of me. If it was sad, the tone of mind which this induced was also sweet. Whatever it might be, my soul acquiesced in it.More Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

And when she had spoken such a rhapsody, she would press me more closely in her trembling embrace, and her lips in soft kisses gently glow upon my cheek.More Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu quotes [12/03/2011 02:12:36]

Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense of exploration, the undefinable interest of a story, and above all, something forbidden, to stimulate the contumacious appetite.More Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.More Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.More Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]