Crimson Peak Quotes

“...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

“None so deaf as those that will not hear; none so blind as those that will not see.”
― Nancy Holder, Crimson Peak

“The mad head of the house was rotting, and night was dragging her wings across the moon, tracing filigree on the floors. In the attic, more black moths were dancing because it was cold, because it was dark. Because they were hungry. For the butterfly.”
― Nancy Holder, Crimson Peak: The Official Movie Novelization

“But the horror... The horror was for love. The things we do for love like this are ugly, mad, full of sweat and regret. This love burns you and maims you and twists you inside out. It is a monstrous love and it makes monsters of us all.”
― Nancy Holder, Crimson Peak

“De todos los fantasmas, los fantasmas de nuestros amores pasados son los peores.”
― Guillermo del Toro, La cumbre escarlata

“—No puedo dejarte, Edith. De hecho, me descubro pensando en ti en los momentos más inoportunos del día. Siento que un vínculo, un lazo existe entre tu corazón y el mío. Si ese lazo se rompe debido a la distancia o el tiempo… temo que mi corazón deje de latir y muera. Y pronto me olvidarías. Edith recuperó el aliento para hablar. —Nunca, nunca te olvidaría.”
― Guillermo del Toro, La cumbre escarlata

“Y ahí estaba Edith, dorada y radiante como el sol. Romeo había dicho lo mismo de Julieta; ese amor había tenido un destino funesto, pero para ellos…”
― Guillermo del Toro, La cumbre escarlata

“Saber a qué le tememos, es sabes quiénes somos.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Crimson Peak

“Well, I like him. There’s a darkness to him. But does he make it all the way through?”
She shrugged. “It’s entirely up to him.”
“What do you mean?” He smiled quizzically at her.
“Characters talk to you. Transform. Make choices,” she replied.
“Choices,” he echoed.
“Of who they become.”
― Nancy Holder, Crimson Peak

“A shadow? Oh, darling, all that lives in this house are shadows and reflections and creaks and groans. So you’d better soothe that boundless imagination of yours from now on.” Edith”
― Nancy Holder, Crimson Peak: The Official Movie Novelization

“But I cannot leave you, Edith. In fact, I find myself thinking of you at the most inopportune moments of the day. I feel as if a link, a thread, exists between your heart and mine. And that, should that link be broken by distance or time... well, I fear my heart would cease to beat and die. And you'd soon forget about me."
Edith found breath to speak. "Never. I would never forget you.”
― Nancy Holder, Crimson Peak

“The fly that should be dead and the dog that should be dead in the house that should be dead, and the bride, who would be dead soon.
It watched approvingly, appreciating the complexities—and fragilities—of life.”
― Nancy Holder, Crimson Peak

“Los fantasmas existen. Es todo lo que sé. Se desvanecen, junto con el pasado, como la niebla en plena luz del día… a su paso, dejan enseñanzas simbólicas. Certezas simbólicas.”
― Guillermo del Toro, La cumbre escarlata

“—Las cosas que hacemos por amor son desagradables, dementes, llenas de sudor y remordimiento —caminó hacia Edith, quien se contuvo para no gritar. —Este amor te quema y te mutila y te retuerce de adentro hacia fuera. Es un amor monstruoso y nos transforma en monstruos.”
― Guillermo del Toro, La cumbre escarlata

“La novia no vio el esqueleto deforme flotar en la superficie del contenedor abierto. Huesos manchados de sangre. Unas fauces se contorsionaron hasta producir un grito ahogado. Ojos hundidos mirando, buscando. Los recuerdos y el terror lo hicieron flotar. La fuerza de voluntad lo hizo flotar. Tap tap tap. Como teclas de una máquina de escribir.”
― Guillermo del Toro, La cumbre escarlata

“La mosca que debía estar muerta y el perro que debía estar muerto en la casa que debía estar muerta y la novia que moriría pronto.”
― Guillermo del Toro, La cumbre escarlata

“—Una casa tan antigua como ésta, se convierte, con el tiempo, en un ser vivo. Puede que tenga vigas en vez de huesos, ventanas en vez de ojos, y que ahí sentada, sola, pueda terminar enloqueciendo. Dentro de su paredes, comienza a aferrarse a las cosas, a mantenerlas vivas pese a que no deberían estarlo. Cosas como recuerdos, sentimientos, personas —hizo una pausa y continuó—. Algunas son buenas, otras malas… y otras… otras no deberían mencionarse nunca más.”
― Guillermo del Toro, La cumbre escarlata

“Entonces cuéntanos todo al respecto, Edith, ya que sabes tanto. Cuéntanos una historia que comience: ‘Érase una vez, una virgen nerviosa que se casó con el lord fantasmal de un castillo embrujado’.”
― Guillermo del Toro, La cumbre escarlata

“Dublín. ¿Seguro que todos los espejos están tapados DeWitt? Porque uno nunca sabe. Eso que ni qué. Odian la tumba, los muertos. Y cuando dejas a una niña tan dulce como nuestra Edith… pues, no te vas.”
― Guillermo del Toro, La cumbre escarlata

“El amor no ve con los ojos sino con el alma.” —William Shakespeare, Sueño de una noche de verano”
― Guillermo del Toro, La cumbre escarlata

“Edith’s father had always told her that if you wanted to measure the character of a man, then watch how he dealt with his servants.”
― Nancy Holder, Crimson Peak: The Official Movie Novelization

“And he was equally sure that he would never stop loving. He would go to his grave married in his heart to Edith Cushing, and perhaps, if there were such things as ghosts and the fates were kind, he would be able to watch over her, and her children, and her grandchildren and keep her free from danger.”
― Nancy Holder, Crimson Peak: The Official Movie Novelization

“her secret guilty pleasures were the ghost stories of Sheridan Le Fanu and Arthur Machen.”
― Nancy Holder, Crimson Peak: The Official Movie Novelization

“My love is like a red, red rose...”
― Nancy Holder, Crimson Peak

“I feel as if a link exists between your heart and mine, and should that link be broken, either by distance or by time, then my heart would cease to beat and I would die.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Crimson Peak

“She needed sunshine and clean air, not rot and decay and breezes that smelled of clay.”
― Nancy Holder, Crimson Peak