Carmilla Quotes

“Su horrendo apetito de sangre viva le aporta el
vigor de su existencia despierta. El vampiro es propenso a
verse fascinado, con acaparadora vehemencia parecida a la
pasión del amor, por determinadas personas. Persiguiendo a
éstas, ejerce una paciencia y una astucia inagotables, ya
que el acceso a una persona en particular puede verse
obstaculizado de mil maneras. Jamás desistirá hasta haber
saciado su pasión y succionado la vida misma de su
codiciada víctima. Pero, en esos casos, economizará y
prolongará su disfrute asesino con un refinamiento
epicúreo, realzado por las aproximaciones graduales de un
complicado galanteo. En estos casos, parece como si
anhelara algo así como simpatía y consentimiento. En los
casos ordinarios va directo a su objeto, lo vence por la
fuerza, y, a menudo, lo estrangula y aniquila en el curso de
un solo festín.”
― Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish. The more ardent, the more selfish."

"I live in your warm life, and you shall die—die, sweetly die—into mine."

"I have been in love with no one, and never shall, unless it should be with you."

"There is no such thing as forgetting, when someone has pierced your soul with love and longing."

"In the meantime, be sure you never let anyone kiss you."

"Her soft cheek was glowing against mine. 'Darling, darling,' she whispered, 'I live in you; and you would die for me, I love you so.”
― Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“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, hating me through death and after”
― Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“Darling, darling, she murmured, I live in you; and you would die for me, I love you so”
― Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“I have been in love with no one, and never shall," she whispered, "unless it should be with you.”
― Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“And so you were thinking of the night I came here?" she almost whispered. "Are you glad I came?" "Delighted, dear Carmilla," I answered. "And you asked for the picture you think like me, to hang in your room," she murmured with a sigh, as she drew her arm closer about my waist and let her pretty head sink upon my shoulder. "How romantic you are, Carmilla," I said. "Whenever you tell me your story, it will be made up chiefly of some one great romance." She kissed me silently”
― Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“But to die as lovers may-to die together, so that they may live together.”
― Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one forever.”
― Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die—die, sweetly die—into mine”
― Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla