Top 59 Quotes About Gothic Romance
#1. You say one more thing that sounds like it's ripped from the pages of a really bad gothic romance and I'm out of here, are we clear? - Valkyrie Cain
Derek Landy
#2. Ooh la la! A real gothic romance, I don't doubt. What secrets and scandals it must contain." She wagged her eyebrows comically. "Now that's a book that might very well hold my attention.
Julie Klassen
#3. I kinda looked like a wanna-be Goth chick, or an unfortunate Persian girl in a Gothic romance who was wasting away from Tuberculosis. But that was alright. Oz had mentioned he wasn't human. He was probably into that sort of thing.
Katherine Pine
#4. Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time.
Martina Boone
#5. The salty, slightly stagnant smell of the marsh filled my nose. On the other side of the bed, a French door opened to what looked like the balcony. The curtain was drawn but a silhouette moved outside the gauzy white veil.
Sandi Beth Jones
#7. My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave ... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.
Simona Panova
#9. Dying would be normal for me, and one day, I'd be buried beneath a stone, and nothing would matter anymore. It'd be ordinary, like life.
And that terrified me, endlessly.
Rae Hachton
#10. There is absolutely nothing monstrous about being a vampire. In fact, it's quite beautiful.
Rae Hachton
#11. The sublime signals the limits of rationality - the 'sleep' of reason - and was best communicated by obscurity. So in the same spirit as the recipes 'to make a romance', 'seven types of obscurity' could be proposed for a Gothic novel:
Nick Groom
#12. She tasted like a Chateau Margaux, perfectly rounded, slightly plumy with an aftertaste of ripe berries.
Simon Okill
#13. All she could see was her demise and it called out a tempting ruse, offering a suffering less potent than what sickened the living.
B.B. Wynter
#14. I believe in a world where love can still catch you off guard and where the best part is the falling stage. Those shy glances, the racing heart, flushed cheeks, and the butterflies? That's magic.
~Sarah Brocious on More Than Scars
Sarah Brocious
#15. He would die in this room, buried alive by the weight of his life.
Christine Fonseca
#16. 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
#17. You always felt they were pawns in an indifferent universe, butts of an existential joke with no punch line.
Poppy Z. Brite
#18. The stars sparkled above the mist shrouded tents and caravans of the carnival. The night crackled with an odd vibration, as if a veil of peculiarity settled over the company.
A.F. Stewart
#19. When the moon was high over the moors, Rhineholt became a dark place with long, lonely corridors whose shadows gave breath to many secrets.
Amber Newberry
#20. It seemed to me that Mr. Forrester would approve of a woman who could follow him in conversation and not be baffled by ledgers and currency conversions. I had grossly overestimated him.
Gwenn Wright
#21. The time groaned by as John made a fool of himself. Eventually, he grew numb to the death and sin around him. He even came to enjoy gallivanting cross-country like a true crusader. His name brought tears of joy or pain of anger to those he left in his wake. The result of his own unresolved pain.
Solange Nicole
#22. You take all the fun out of life for me, Nik. You know that?" Aiden- Blood Hunger (Deathless Night Series #1)
L.E. Wilson
#23. Are you baiting me, Miss Dantonville?"
"I wouldn't dream of it!"
"Oh, I believe you are! That's a dangerous game to play with a vampire.
Tima Maria Lacoba
#24. No smiling!" said Melinda. "Look stern, everyone."...
He kissed her. "Our American Gothic."
"Sweet Montana Farms style." And she kissed him back.
Roxanne Snopek
#25. I cannot ever imagine a time or place in which I will not love you. I am willing to do whatever it takes.
Laura Morgan
#26. The trees seemed to have eyes that were watching us and reaching out for me. They began to take on the shape of the dead.
Amber Newberry
#27. Some rumors said she was a demon from another world. Other rumors said she was death incarnate, someone to remind us of our misdeeds. But no one had said how beautiful she was. No one had mentioned her eyes. The ones that showed color only for a second. A hint of beauty in absolute blackness.
Shannon A. Thompson
#28. The beauty of a woman is that no two are the same. They are all different. It follows then that to be successful as a lover, you cannot make love to any two in the same way.
Shane K.P. O'Neill
#31. She wanted me to love her... and stranger still, i wanted to love and be loved by her. Death had become romantic again.
J.D. Clair
#32. This daemon loves men whose marriage beds have grown cold, so she can set them ablaze.
Solange Nicole
#33. When her mind was discomposed ... a book was the opiate that lulled it to repose.
Ann Radcliffe
#35. His love with Lucy bled from his heart as he slipped into a dark despair - a melancholy that only she could sever with her chaste voice and tender kisses. Now in an unreachable darkness, a blindness took hold. A blood lust that would drive him mad for five years hence.
Solange Nicole
#36. We're in high school. If it didn't come from the school cafeteria, we like it.
S.K.N. Hammerstone
#37. Eternity, I repeated, the words burning into my brain, so much so it felt we'd made some form of sacred and unbreakable bond.
Tima Maria Lacoba
#38. But there is nothing, no trace that she's ever existed. She is not here. She will never be here again.
Because of me.
Christine Fonseca
#39. My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905
Gwenn Wright
#41. Another tug and a yank at my chestnut curls and she snarls at me, "You are so much like her."
This is something my mother often says and never explains. Though it is a great mystery to me it is also a blessing, for she always hurries from the room after saying it.
Gwenn Wright
#42. In those few words you've summed up my life - my reason for existence. It's you. Any pain I've suffered, the mistakes I've made, the path laid out for me have all led here - to you.
Tima Maria Lacoba
#43. I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.
And buried.
Simona Panova
#44. Never give up, Never surrender!!!!!
If you think you can't, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins
Paula V. Hardin
#45. All cats are gray in the dark. And besides, her actions have less to do with her, and everything to do with you.
Jaye Frances
#46. Moonseed Manor did not look like a place to live. Moonseed Manor looked like a place to die.
Erica Ridley
#47. You Just scared me half to death," I said.
"You should be thrilled you're halfway there.
Rae Hachton
#48. Religious figures, gargoyles, and grotesques, she though, looked fine on Gothic cathedrals, but she'd always spent more time looking at the murals inside the buildings than the carvings outside.
So why did this one seem to have captured all her attention?
Christine Warren
#49. I came from across the ocean and through the wilderness and landed here and found you hiding behind a tapestry. My fate was sealed at the sight of your stockinged feet.
~Viktor von Strassenberg
Gwenn Wright
#50. The wavelets flung themselves up as if trying to pat my feet and I darted back, laughing, and picked up my skirts to chase them back as they receded, in a game of tag more ancient than I then knew.
Amanda DeWees
#51. He stood at the foot of the grave, gloved hands clasped behind him, his dark clothes and hair blending into one black silhouette, as if he were not a presence but an absence, a hole cut out of the landscape.
Amanda DeWees
#52. People do not ever change. The person you see later is merely the one that was hidden from you in the beginning.
Shane KP O'Neill - The Gates Of Babylon.
Shane K.P. O'Neill
#53. I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful.
Rae Hachton
#54. It was enough to drive me mad. I was no longer myself and yet I was so much more me than I had ever been before.
~Katherine Demure
Gwenn Wright
#55. One speck of dung will spoil the pot. In order to keep my thoughts on a high level, I put a positive construction on things.
Kathleen Rowland
#56. It was a privileged existence, but also a cage, beautifully decorated, but locked tight always.
Amber Newberry
#57. Vijaya prefers to eat alone. Rob ushered her into the room and held a chair for her, then sat across from her. "Many Indians regard eating as something that should be done in private. Considering the table manners of some of our best people, one can see their point."
Patricia Frances Rowell
Patricia Frances Rowell
#58. Good evening, you poor little Orphans of a Loveless God. Good evening to you blood sucking fools.
Paula Heath
#59. My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. Viktor, what?
Gwenn Wright
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