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Gaston Leroux quotes
13 quotes from 3 of Gaston Leroux’s books on this site, book by book. Each quote is copied exactly from the book’s text in this site’s reader (the Project Gutenberg e-text named under each book) and links to its passage; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against that text. Quotes we could not find in a book we host are not listed.
The Phantom of the Opera
All I wanted was to be loved for myself.
— Spoken by a character · XXII. In the Torture Chamber
'know that I am built up of death from head to foot and that it is a corpse that loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!
— Spoken by a character · XII. Apollo's Lyre
Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of the voice!
— Spoken by a character · XII. Apollo's Lyre
In Paris, our lives are one masked ball; and the foyer of the ballet is the last place in which two men so "knowing" as M. Debienne and M. Poligny would have made the mistake of betraying their grief, however genuine it might be.
Are people so unhappy when they love?
— Spoken by a character · XIII. A Master-Stroke of the Trap-Door Lover
"You are frightened ... but do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine?"
— Spoken by a character · XII. Apollo's Lyre
He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.
"I don't know myself when I sing," writes the poor child.
— Spoken by a character · V. The Enchanted Violin
He is extraordinarily thin and his dress-coat hangs on a skeleton frame. His eyes are so deep that you can hardly see the fixed pupils. You just see two big black holes, as in a dead man's skull.
— Spoken by a character · I. Is it the Ghost?
They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
There are moments when one feels as if one’s brain were about to burst. A bullet in the head, a fracture of the skull, the seat of reason shattered—with only these can I compare the sensation which exhausted and left me void of sense.
— Spoken by a character · XVII. The Inexplicable Gallery
The Secret of the Night
Do not believe these men! Do not believe Matrena Petrovna. And am I not your daughter? Your very own daughter! Your Natacha Feodorovna!
— Spoken by a character · X. A DRAMA IN THE NIGHT
“No one is ever sure of anything, my dear Monsieur Koupriane.”
— Spoken by a character · VIII. THE LITTLE CHAPEL OF THE GUARDS