“How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain on the upper surface for so long—the care of cares—the only one, as it seemed to you, between your soul and the radiance of Heaven—and straight you find a new stratum there. As physical science tells us no fluid is without its skin, so does it seem with this fine medium of the soul, and these successive films of care that form upon its surface on mere contact with the upper air and light.”
“How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain on the upper surface for so long—the care of cares—the only one, as it seemed to you, between your soul and the radiance of Heaven—and straight you find a new stratum there. As physical science tells us no fluid is without its skin, so does it seem with this fine medium of the soul, and these successive films of care that form upon its surface on mere contact with the upper air and light.”
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
“Although I felt very weak, I did not feel ill; and strength, one always fancies, is a thing that may be picked up when we please.”
J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla“Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure.”
J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla“But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”
J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla“But curiosity is a restless and unscrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.”
J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla: By Joseph Sheridan le Fanu - Illustrated“The precautions of nervous people re infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imitate them.”
J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla: By Joseph Sheridan le Fanu - Illustrated“but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.”
J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla“You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever.”
J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla“...and to this hour the image of Carmilla returns to mind with ambiguous alterations--sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church; and often from a reverie I have started, fancying I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing room door.”
J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla“Mademoiselle De Lafontaine – in right of her father, who was a German, assumed to be psychological, metaphysical and something of a mystic – now declared that when the moon shone with a light so intense it was well known that it indicated a special spiritual activity. The effect of the full moon in such a state of brilliancy was manifold. It acted on dreams, it acted on lunacy, it acted on nervous people; it had marvelous physical influences connected with life. Mademoiselle related that here cousin, who was mate of a merchant ship, having taken a nap on deck on such a night, lying on his back, with his face full in the light of the moon, had wakened, after a dream of an old woman clawing him by the cheek, with his features horribly drawn to one side; and his countenance had never quite recovered its equilibrium.”
J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla“I remember everything about it—with an effort. I see it all, as divers see what is going on above them, through a medium, dense, rippling, but transparent.”
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