Carmilla and Laura Quotes

“Some ineffable piece of me had gone, rewritten by her touch, and what had been stolen was patched by a piece of her, some bit of her heart I had unknowingly taken with me.”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“It pained me, her hand wrapping around the tender, beating something beneath it, as though her fingers ruptured holes within my chest, but I could not bear to have her leave.”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“I could have bathed in every piece of her, but I was left parched for thirst.”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“You give in to your passions with the fearlessness of one already damned”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“To savor every moment together would be enough. It would have to be enough.”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“I had missed you all my life.”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“Now, I felt I had lost something I’d never even held.”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“I do not know if I believe in God," Carmilla said. "Because it means he created a creature like me, only to condemn me to Hell from the start." I knew not if she referred to being a vampire or her habit of kissing women.”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“My pen trembled as I wrote her name, afraid to implicate myself, but the words flowed like an evocative river. Perhaps it was to make sense of it, to siphon through my knowledge and find a creature of darkness, yet all I wrote of was light.”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“Though for me, it confirmed what I feared: that I adored her presence, that my heart soared at our touch. But for the sake of our friendship, and for the sake of her tender heart, I set that aside.”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“Darling, darling, the dark has never hurt a soul. Perhaps be more concerned for its inhabitants.”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“What use have I for the attentions of men?”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura

“But I could not look away. Nor did I think I wanted to, even if impulse whispered to run.”
― S.D. Simper, Carmilla and Laura