Nancy Kilpatrick > Quotes

“Goths choose to live with paradox, and taking your look seriously while laughing at yourself is just one of the many dualities they manage to balance.”
― Nancy Kilpatrick, The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined

“Besides being a writer, and in her spare time enjoying religious visions, she cranked out some pretty wicked music, which she intended that the sisters at the convent would sing at liturgical and other functions.”
― Nancy Kilpatrick, The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined

“The Victorian goth is a genteel character, morning that environment which nurtured sensitivity and venerated consideration.”
― Nancy Kilpatrick, The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined

“Gregorian chants have floated down the corridors of time to land gently in the velvet-covered lap of goth.”
― Nancy Kilpatrick, The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined

“Goth looks can range from lingering death to finally dead to eternally undead, but black is the one constant, the color of choice.”
― Nancy Kilpatrick, The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined

“Queen Victoria is our role model for mourning, thank you. After all, she did manage to mourn her dead husband for forty years. Quite a feat.”
― Nancy Kilpatrick, The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined

“Goths are nothing if not creative dressers.”
― Nancy Kilpatrick, The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined

“The music we enjoy today is only possible because of polyphony.”
― Nancy Kilpatrick, The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined

“Those who long to be hidden can hide.”
― Nancy Kilpatrick, The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined

“Your value has and always will lie in the courage of your being.”
― Nancy Kilpatrick, The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined

“Woe to the goth who does not partake of the Internet! For he/she shall be relegated to the humdrum of real time with all its imperfections!”
― Nancy Kilpatrick, The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined

“Black is the night, that time when all night be as it is in daylight but the lack of light ensures mystery-what goths crave.”
― Nancy Kilpatrick, The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined

“Goth supports the feminine in both women and men.”
― Nancy Kilpatrick, The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined

“This is an artistic approach to living life.”
― Nancy Kilpatrick, The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined