David Punter Gothic Quotes

#1. Courage, like cowardice, is undoubtedly contagious, but some persons are not liable to catch it.

George D. Prentice

#2. Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two.

Miles Franklin

#3. The Animal does not question lif. It lives. It's very reason for living is life; it enjoys and relishes life.

Ray Bradbury

#4. We said to him: here is your happiness, here is what you spent your whole youth looking for, here is the girl you saw in all your dreams!
How could anyone, pushed by the shoulders like that, avoid a reaction of indecision, then fear, then dismay--how could he resist the temptation to escape?

Alain-Fournier

#5. People aren't always who they seem, Detective. Am I anything like you thought?"
"No," I admitted. You're a million times better than I could have imagined.

Dani Alexander

#6. The gothic reminds us that we are mainly driven by our passions; the Gothic deals in illicit desires, in what is prohibited by society.

David Punter

#7. I'm starting to see what he must have seen in her. What he must have loved.

Paula Hawkins