Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu quotes

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.

“I have been in love with no one, and never shall,” she whispered, “unless it should be with you.”

— Spoken by a character · V. A Wonderful Likeness

“Darling, darling,” she murmured, “I live in you; and you would die for me, I love you so.”

— Spoken by a character · V. A Wonderful Likeness

“You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever.”

— Spoken by a character · IV. Her Habits—A Saunter

Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood.

— Spoken by a character · VI. A Very Strange Agony

Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours.

— Spoken by a character · IV. Her Habits—A Saunter

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, don’t you see—each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure.

But to die as lovers may—to die together, so that they may live together.

— Spoken by a character · IV. Her Habits—A Saunter

But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.

“Nevertheless life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.”

— Spoken by a character · IV. Her Habits—A Saunter