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#1

“Art lovers collect paintings that demonstrate some form of imperceptible complexity. Abstract images with vague messages and symbols that keep you guessing and wondering what it all means, if anything. What these art buffs don’t seem to realize is that true complexity—the real abstract image—lies in something as simple and as random as a family photo. If they bothered to look deeply and closely enough into these unremarkable images, they would see the lies, the sorrow and the dark secrets that hide behind the superficial smiles and forced joviality. A picture is worth a thousand words, but most of those words get lost in translation.”
― Mindy Fordham, The Waking World

tags: gothic, gothic-fiction, horror-authors, philosophy

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#2

“Lady Dunreath, in the meantime, suffered torture; after she had seen Malvina turned from the abbey, she returned to her apartment; it was furnished with the most luxurious elegance, yet she could not rest within it. Conscience already told her, if Malvina died, she must consider herself her murderer: her pale and woe-worn image seemed still before her: a cold terror oppressed her heart, which the terrors of the night augmented. The tempest shook the battlements of the abbey; and the wind howled through the galleries, like the moan of some wandering spirit of the pile, bewailing the fate of one of its fairest daughters.”
― Regina Maria Roche, The Children of the Abbey

tags: gothic-fiction

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#3

“She lifted my head up with her woundless hands and smiled. Her smile could make the day last a lifetime. I wanted to kiss her. She placed her hand on my heart. I tried to pull her close to me but I knew my life was coming to an end. It would be meaningless. Why would anyone care for a monster that I am?”
― Sunny Houk, Mortified

tags: gothic-fiction, short-story, symbolism

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#4

“When her mind was discomposed... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.”
― Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest

tags: ann-radcliffe, gothic-fiction, gothic-romance, reading-books

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#5

“Rain turned to ice,
and lightning splintered, it spliced
the black sky, it seeped a bright white.
All animals they fled,
from the sky as it bled,
pale death that fell veiling the night.”
― A. Lee Brock, Penny Willan and the Well: A Fairy Tale of Ode

tags: fable, fairy-tale, gothic-fiction, horror, poetry-quotes

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#6

“Don’t look so shocked. And please, please don’t scream. You and I both knew that this was coming… Yes, yes, it’s a mess… but the nails were having trouble penetrating so they had to go. Speaking of which… Could you get that last nail?

Vince Liberato
“Because I was Bored”
― Vince Liberato, The Rogues Gallery: The Illustrated Police News

tags: firbolg-publishing, gothic-fiction, rogues-gallery, vince-liberato

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#7

“Painful memories, they can mend,
love’s powerful, but it can rend,
through the treacherous act of jealousy.
A passion that seeks to destroy,
the soul when it deploys,
the vicious sin that is envy.

Take heed my friends,
when contemplating the end
of an imagined rival for the heart’s true amour.
Acts of envy bode not well,
for they cast an evil spell,
and in the end you’ll suffer forevermore.

For jealously can blight,
the harmonious light
of all the love you’d hoped to see,
because envy has power,
and can inhumanly devour,
everything you wanted from love, for thee.”
― A. Lee Brock, Penny Willan and the Well: A Fairy Tale of Ode

tags: fables, fairy-tale, gothic-fiction, love-quotes, poetry-quotesquotes

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#8

“It was a fact that had become the focus of my entire life, a whisper in my heartbeat, a permanent, insidious presence that punctuated my every breath. I couldn’t escape it, that persistent voice, lingering in the blood pulsing through my veins. It said only one thing, over and over, a repetition of inescapable anguish, the knowledge of a thing that could never be undone.
James is dead. James is dead. James is dead. James is dead.”
― Hazel Butler, Chasing Azrael

tags: contemporary-fantasy, death, death-and-dying, death-of-a-loved-one, depression, depression-quotes, gothic, gothic-fantasy, gothic-fiction, gothic-horror, gothic-literature, grief, paranormal-fiction, paranormal-mystery, paranormal-thriller, supernatural-mystery, supernatural-thrillers, urban-fantasy, urban-fantasy-series

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#9

“I imagined her poised, a humerus in one hand, a toothbrush in the other, as she gently brushed away the last remnants of the person who had once used that arm to shake hands, open doors, lift a mug of tea. I wondered if it was so very different from how I myself looked when I sat on the floor of my finds room, perhaps sitting cross-legged, at the centre of a circle of newly cleaned bones, a tibia in one hand, a toothbrush in the other …”
― Hazel Butler, Chasing Azrael

tags: contemporary-fantasy, gothic, gothic-fantasy, gothic-fiction, gothic-horror, gothic-literature, murder, murder-mystery, paranormal-fiction, paranormal-mystery, paranormal-thriller, supernatural-mystery, supernatural-thrillers, urban-fantasy, urban-fantasy-series

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#10

“Some rumors said she was a demon from another world. Other rumors said she was death incarnate, someone to remind us of our misdeeds. But no one had said how beautiful she was. No one had mentioned her eyes. The ones that showed color only for a second. A hint of beauty in absolute blackness.”
― Shannon A. Thompson, July Thunder

tags: beauty, beauty-quotes, darkness, death, demons, gothic, gothic-romance, hope, misdeeds, rumors

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#11

“Surely it was the shock of all I’d learned, the danger his conclusions indicated, but as I returned his smile, a bit of warmth filled my cheeks. There was something awfully pleasant about his dark features and wild hair, which begged to be touched.”
― Abigail Wilson, Midnight on the River Grey

tags: gothic, gothic-romance, historical-romance

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#12

“...perhaps we only notice things when the time comes for us to pay attention to them. When they need us to see them…”
― Nancy Holder, Crimson Peak

tags: gothic-romance, horror-romance

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#13

“She wanted me to love her... and stranger still, i wanted to love and be loved by her. Death had become romantic again.”
― J.D. Clair

tags: gothic-romance, romance-quotes

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#14

“I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had.”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

tags: acting, actor, actress, alone, always, audience, control, demand, demanding, drama, dramatic, emotion, emotional, emotionless, exact, exacting, fake, feel, feelings, feelless, forbid, forbidden, goth, gothic, gothic-romance, hide, hiding, lonely, mask, masks, play, postmodern, postmodernism, pretend, pretending, romance, romantic, self-image, stern, strength, strong, suspense, theater, theatre, weak, weakness, young-adult, young-adult-gothic-romance

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#15

“I cannot ever imagine a time or place in which I will not love you. I am willing to do whatever it takes.”
― Laura Morgan, Embracing the Darkness

tags: angels-and-demons, female-empowerment, gothic-romance, heaven-and-hell, love-quotes, paranormal-romance

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#16

“She would've made an excellent pirate.”
― Erica Ridley, Too Sinful To Deny

tags: cozy-mystery, ghosts, gothic-romance

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#17

“And I wasn’t playing a role – I was trying to be myself.
But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed roles...”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

tags: be-yourself, cardew, freya, goth, gothic, gothic-romance, hidden, hide, identity, lonely, lose, lost, mask, masked, masks, myself, mysterious, mystery, obsession, obsessive, perfect, perfection, play, postmodern, postmodernism, pretend, pretending, real, reality, realize, role, roles, romance, romantic, secret, secretive, strive, suspense, try, trying, who-i-am, who-you-are, young-adult, young-adult-gothic-romance, young-adult-suspense, yourself

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#18

“I’d love to try to tame you... And I would simply adore it if you turn out untamable –”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

tags: cardew, danger, dangerous, freya, goth, gothic, gothic-mystery, gothic-romance, love, loved, mystery, provocative, provoke, relationship, romance, romantic, sexy, tame, tamed, tease, tempt, temptation, tempting, untamable, young-adult

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#19

“A good enemy can be better than the best of friend.”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

tags: ally, attractive, beautiful, best, best-friend, best-friends, betray, betrayal, betrayed, better, cardew, enemy, foe, forgive, forgiveness, freya, friend, friendly, goth, gothic, gothic-romance, lovable, love, lovely, lover, provocative, relationship, reliable, rely, romance, romantic, secret, secretive, sexy, trust, trustworthy, young-adult, young-adult-gothic-romance

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#20

“You can speak to me like you haven’t spoken even to yourself.”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

tags: betray, betrayal, better, cardew, comfort, confess, confessor, freya, gothic, gothic-romance, honest, like, love, loyal, loyalty, me, nightmarish, nightmarish-sacrifice, relationship, relationships, romance, sacrifice, soothe, speak, suspense, talk, trust, trusting, trustworthy, truth, truthful, what-to-say, you, young-adult, yourself

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#21

“ I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her what I never known how to give her. These pages will be our memory until she drows her last breath in my arms and I take her forever and escape at last to a place where neither heaven nor hell will ever be able to find us. ”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

tags: 20th-century, adventure, angel-s-game, art, barcelona, books-about-books, carlos-ruiz-zafón, dark-fantasy, death, devotion, el-juego-del-angel, epic-fantasy, evermore, faith, fantasy, freedom, goth, gothic, gothic-romance, happyness, heaven, hell, hnowledge, humor, inspirational, jocul-ingerului, life, love, memories, pain, philosophy, romance, supernatural, thriller, tibidabo, truth, wisdom, world-war, writing, zafon

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#22

“The questions push me further into the space in between, the place where my madness lays waiting for me. I struggle with each question, determined to extract some sort of answer, an explanation for everything that has happened so far. But no answers come and I’m forced to acknowledge the feeling lodged between my two worlds
Terror.”
― Christine Fonseca, Transcend

tags: gothic-romance, horror, psychological-thriller, ya

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#23

“With painstaking rumination, the tips of his fingers grazed over my neck, a deafening silence. I didn't move as his hand paused at the base of my throat. He listened to the arrhythmic beating of my heart, my pulse thumping beneath his fingers. He kissed me along my neckline and throat. I almost burst apart from the longing. My blood burned for him.”
― Rae Hachton

tags: dark-lover, death-and-dying, ellie-piper, gothic-fantasy, gothic-romance, lovers, marcus-marble, pretty-in-black, pretty-in-black-series, rae-hachton, vampire, vampire-kisses, vampire-romance

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#24

“He stood at the foot of the grave, gloved hands clasped behind him, his dark clothes and hair blending into one black silhouette, as if he were not a presence but an absence, a hole cut out of the landscape.”
― Amanda DeWees, Sea of Secrets

tags: gothic-romance, historical-romance

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