Le parfum de la dame en noir Quotes

“I am afraid!” murmured Edith once more. And I, too, was afraid—overwhelmed after the mysteries of the night by the vast, desolate silence of the noon. The broad glare of daylight in which one knows that something strange and terrible is going on is more awful than the deepest and darkest night. Everything skips and yet everything wakes. Everything is dead and everything is living. Everything is wrapped in silence and still there are sounds everywhere. Listen to your own ear. It sounds as loud as a conch shell filled with the most mysterious sounds of the sea. Close your lids and look into your own eyes; you will find there a throng of crowding visions more mysterious than the phantoms of the night.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Perfume of the Lady in Black