“My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905” — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes. — Ira Levin Copy Share Image
“It is a melody to me. You are a song, Lenore, harmony and discord. I am learning to sing it.” — Kat Dunn Copy Share Image
I know Duke's magnolia-carpeted campus and gray, gothic towers. — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“I’m pretty sure your house isn’t haunted,” he said. She shrugged. “Part of me hopes you’re wrong.” — Jake Vander-Ark Copy Share Image
“And when she had spoken such a rhapsody, she would press me more closely in her trembling embrace, and her lips in… — Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
“You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“Spanish Moss- A Southern Gothic, a Live Oak Lady, caressing limbs, secret and shady. Wild and pale, curly and thin, She's a… — Charles Ghigna Copy Share Image
You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser. — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
“All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
I was a beautiful vampire princess loved, worshiped and admired by all. I lived in a luxurious gothic castle and I have… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
“Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.” — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“The fog did not hide London. It revealed what the city had been trying to bury. — WOLF SUIT by Valon G” — Valon G Copy Share Image
I decorated my house like a medieval gothic castle, European-style. Chandeliers and red velvet curtains. My bedroom is pink and black, my… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“I was recently living more comfortably surrounded by secrets... Like dozens of luxurious satiny pillows, they were embracing me from all directions… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“There is a stillness between us, a period of restlessness that ties my stomach in a hangman’s noose. It is this same… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine;… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The same architect who designed the Seattle fair's futuristic Science Center, with its lacy Gothic arches and spires, Minoru Yamasaki, was hired… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“She wondered if she was the only person trying not to imagine what death-by-bear looked like. Would bears pick the bones white?… — Jake Vander-Ark Copy Share Image
“Stevenson's story strips away all the distancing devices of the traditional Gothic, locating the horror of atavistic returns in central London, in… — Robert Mighall Copy Share Image
There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Beneath the haunted castle lies the dungeon keep: the womb from whose darkness the ego first emerged, the tomb to which it… — Leslie A. Fiedler Copy Share Image
“The marine underworld stretched below the ship and embodied many secrets. The disappearance of Olga had become one of the mysteries that… — Tiffany Apan Copy Share Image
“it was unmatched life experience that bestowed in her eyes the sultry gleam that separates women from girls. although she viewed her… — Jake Vander Ark Copy Share Image
“I once loved a guy who fashioned himself as some sort of gothic paradox. He liked to slice his arms in small… — Brenda S. Tolian Copy Share Image
“There was a prisoner, I said, in the first cell of the second passage. A fair-haired girl, quite young, quite handsome. What… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“Stalin gothic was not so much an architectural style as a form of worship. Elements of Greek, French, Chinese and Italian masterpieces… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“To me, Gothic fiction is the literary representation of the stormy gloom of the British Isles.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead. And buried.” — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“The world was alive, the sky descending; our times were lullabies and sad goodbyes.” — Nicholaus Patnaude Copy Share Image
“I can’t help but ask, “Do you know where you are?” She turns to me with a foreboding glare. “Do you?” — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
“Don't resent me when I've only just gotten you, please, for I am what makes this world beautiful.” — Adalyn Grace Copy Share Image
Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture. — James Wyatt Copy Share Image
