“... My mother, daroga, my poor, unhappy mother would never... let me kiss her... She used to run away... and throw me my mask!... Nor any other woman... ever, ever!... Ah, you can understand, my happiness was so great, I… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was as golden as the sun's rays, and her soul as clear and blue as her eyes. She wheedled her mother, was kind to her doll, took great care of her… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
“Possibly, I too shall take the train at that station one day, and go and seek around thy lakes, O Norway, O silent Scandinavia...… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
Erik, Erik! I saved your life! Remember? You were scentenced to death! But for me you would be dead by now. — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
Persons visited by the angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
Now I want to live like everybody else. I want to have a wife like everybody else and to take her out on Sundays.… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
“There is a terrible mystery around us...a mystery much more to be feared than any number of ghosts or genii!” — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
He stared dully at the desolate, cold road and the pale, dead night. Nothing was colder or more dead than his heart. He had… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
“Surely, if his heart continued to make such a noise, they would hear it inside, they would open the door and the young man… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
I tore off my mask so as not to lose one of her tears... and she did not run away!...and she did not die!...… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
“No, no, you have driven me mad! When I think that I had only one object in life: to give my name to an… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am not laughing now, crying,… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
