The Face in the Glass and Other Gothic Tales Quotes

“That he will haunt the footsteps of his enemy after death is the one revenge which a dying man can promise himself; and if men had power thus to avenge themselves the earth would be peopled with phantoms.”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, The Face in the Glass and Other Gothic Tales

“The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord.' We repeated the holy sentences of resignation; but it was not resignation, it was despair that subdued the violence of our grief.”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, The Face in the Glass and Other Gothic Tales