Gothic Romance Quotes

“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
― Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey

“One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies.

“They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.”
― Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey

“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way.”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“I will render you as you really were, neither cast in pristine stained glass or unholy fire. I will make you into nothing more than a man, tender and brutal in equal measure, and perhaps in doing so I will justify myself to you. To my own haunted conscience.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

“Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!”
― Louisa May Alcott

“Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“A human life is a beautiful thing," he said. "You humans.... you feel. You feel so deeply that it consumes you. There were humans I kept a watch over, though I would blink and they'd be fifty, sixty
years older—and the time would come for me to meet them. For the longest time, I pitied them for their short lives. And I admit, Signa, that I have grown more callous with my age. But I have also grown to admire humans. They've such a short time to experience their lives, and so they must feel deeply. They must experience in one life-time things it's taken me an eternity to experience. When I see men like Elijah, rather than feel guilt for what I've done, I remember that he feels sorrow because he loved so deeply. And were I not real, Little Bird, were I not Death, he would never have experienced that love. So which is better? To live forever, or to live and love?”
― Adalyn Grace, Belladonna

“Don't resent me when I've only just gotten you, please, for I am what makes this world beautiful.”
― Adalyn Grace, Belladonna

“You are not cursed-you are a reaper. You are the night incarnate, the ferrier of souls. You are the bridge between the living and the dead—a caged bird that's ready to fly. So spread your wings, Signa Farrow, because you are limitless. Spread your wings, and oh, how we'll fly.”
― Adalyn Grace, Belladonna

“I dove down deep into your psyche, turning over every word you gave me like a jewel. Looking for meaning, seeking out the mysteries of you. I didn't care if I lost myself in the process. I wanted to be brought by the hand into your world and disappear into your kiss until us two could no longer be told apart.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

“She no longer feared what brewed within her, and
she was done making apologies for who she was. Signa would not just burn; she would ignite.”
― Adalyn Grace, Belladonna

“You Just scared me half to death," I said.

"You should be thrilled you're halfway there.”
― Rae Hachton, Pretty In Black

“She says it is a school for bluestockings which, according to her, is really only a fashionable way of saying it is a school for ugly girls who cannot find suitable husbands. To tease her, for I believe it is one of his greatest pleasures in this life, my father bought a pair of blue silk stockings for me the day we received my letter of acceptance. That evening and the next, father and I dined alone.”
― Gwenn Wright, The BlueStocking Girl

“Dying would be normal for me, and one day, I'd be buried beneath a stone, and nothing would matter anymore. It'd be ordinary, like life.

And that terrified me, endlessly.”
― Rae Hachton, Black Satin

“Another tug and a yank at my chestnut curls and she snarls at me, “You are so much like her.”
This is something my mother often says and never explains. Though it is a great mystery to me it is also a blessing, for she always hurries from the room after saying it.”
― Gwenn Wright, The BlueStocking Girl

“It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled by ledgers and currency conversions. I had grossly overestimated him.”
― Gwenn Wright, The BlueStocking Girl

“But there is nothing, no trace that she’s ever existed. She is not here. She will never be here again.
Because of me.”
― Christine Fonseca, Libera Me

“For the sake of your bright eyes, Jem Merlyn.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

“You had a bad dream." Jack tenderly tucks a strand of bloodred hair behind my ear. "I've got you now, Sally. Through sweet dreams or nightmares, I've always got you."
"Oh, Jack." I bury my face against his rib cage. "It didn't feel like a dream."
As I sink into his hold, letting my twisted-up stuffing of cotton and crisp autumn leaves unravel back into place, I try to tell myself that he's right: It was only a dream.
I may now be the queen of a land of nightmares-- but I come from a place of sweet dreams. And even though my life is happier now than I ever imagined, it seems that, even in slumber, I still can't find my place between those worlds.”
― Megan Shepherd, Hour of the Pumpkin Queen

“I clap a hand over my mouth. What am I doing? I have all these books to entertain myself with and I’m here ogling him. What is going on with me? He’s a witch. And he’s not even nice!”
― Andrews Kerri

“She watched them burn, hands clutching her skirt before she slumped to her knees.
“I will kill him, Sera. No matter what I have to do.” It wasn’t only a promise, it was an oath. 

-Faustine, Singing For Starblood”
― Emma Lou, Singing For Starblood

“It should always be like this. It should always be senoir year. I should always be twenty-one, with nothing but life ahead of me. It should always be sunrise, at the start of a new day.”
― S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

“We sat down on a rude bench, under a group of magnificent lime trees. The sun was setting with all its melancholy splendour behind the sylvan horizon, and the stream that flows beside our home, and passes under the steep old bridge I have mentioned, wound through many a group of noble trees, almost at our feet, reflecting in its current the fading crimson of the sky.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“When I die — I’ll turn into wind,
And live above your rooftop, free.
Alisa cried, smiling through her tears.
And continued:
When you die — you’ll become the sun,
And still, you'll be above me.”
― Pavel Kozlov, Death’s Beloved: She fell in love with death

“If Cora is an English rose, I am milk thistle: a weed, persistent and desperate.”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone

“We crash. We ruin. We take.”
― Angeliena Cifelli, Blood & Guns: Dark Paranormal Mafia Romance

“This glass was a gift from the Watchers, Faustine. Real angels sent from heaven. A long time ago one of them fell in love with a mortal, and this glass was their first blessing. Glass that sings.

-Seraphine, Singing For Starblood”
― Emma lou , Singing For Starblood

“You have fucking feelings for her.”
― N. E. Stevens, Forged in Blood and Shadow: A Dark Fantasy Romance

“Then hate me,” he says. “Hate me right when you wake up and as soon as you lay to rest. Hate me harder than you love anything else.” He rubs a palm up and down her spine, kissing the crown of her head. “One day you’ll realize, Valithia, that I will accept anything you offer me, even if it’s your hatred. For your hatred is better than never experiencing you at all.”
― A.R. Tapiero, The Devil’s Opera