"You're always looking. What a pity you never quite manage to see." - Erik
"None of us can choose where we will love." - Erik
"I rocked her in the sweet tide of my music until she slept in my embrace and then for a long time I simply held her, cherishing the weight of her body in my arms and the slight pressure of her head against my shoulder. So light and fragile! She seemed no more than a child...a dead child lying in my arms." -Erik
"And in the moonlight his gloved hand was elusively normal; it looked warm and strong and quite curiously reassuring, the hand not of a monster and murderer, but of a gentle, loving man, who waited with infinite patience for one little sign of hope...." - Christine
"I love you, Erik, I love you in so many different ways...but my love is the love of a child afraid to grow up." - Christine
"Removing his mask and cloak, he handed them to me and I suddenly saw that there were tears glistening unshed in his mismatched eyes.... " - Nadir
"Take care of yourself, Nadir," he said softly. "Take very great care.... Your tiresome health has become very dear to me." - Erik
"Every good Opera House must have a ghost." - Erik
"My mouth dropped open in astonishment, for nothing in his grim and austere appearance had prepared me for his voice. Even in that cold, clipped comment its astonishing beauty was quite unmistakable. Only those who heard him speak and sing will ever know just what a voice could be, for it was necessary to hear the extraordinary resonance and depth of timbre to truly understand the magnitude to his power." - Nadir
"Such a little thing, a kiss...most people don't give it a moment's consideration...they kiss on leaving, they kiss on parting, that simple touching of flesh is taken for granted as a basic human right... I've lived half a century without knowing what it is to be kissed...and I'll never know now...." - Erik
"You'd think I wouldn't remember, but I remember everything...everything....I was cursed with these extraordinary powers of recall...." - Erik
"But people will have been killed!"
"Oh yes...I daresay that's quite likely. It's really quite difficult to be a murderer without killing people from time to time, you know." - Erik
"Happiness? Is this what it feels like, this surge of warmth and physical euphoria? Oh Christine, if there were a loving God in heaven it would be my arm you take now, my shoulder upon which you lean in your utter exhaustion. ...Beneath the mask my face is wet with tears. Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine. It doesn't last very long." - Erik
"Simple words can be reduced to obscenities by my tongue, can they not? Wife... husband... love?" - Erik
"No one in the world needs me...no one ever will...." - Erik
"Music was the secret sanctuary of my soul; music was my god, the only master I would ever serve again." - Erik
"There was something in his glance that made me take an unexpectedly deep breath. As he began to walk toward me I found that I could not take my eyes off him. He moved with slow majesty, as though his whole body was informed by the rhythm of a music he alone could hear, and I was stunned by the breathless terror which seized me as he approached." - Nadir
"Erik...Are you there?"
The silence mocked me, leering at me from the leaden waters; the candle wavered and went out, leaving me trembling with fear, frustration, and mounting panic.
"Erik, where are you?" I screamed, "Erik!"
"Hush...I am here." - Erik and Christine
"A long time she held me, as though she could not bear to let me go, and when at last we drew apart, we stared at each other with silent awe, dazed by the intensity of what we had shared. It was finished then, of course...that kiss ended everything. The moment I knew she was mine - - truly mine - - I knew I could not kill that wretched boy." - Erik
"I trusted you! I trusted you to treat me like a civilized human being and come back with your answer. All these months I've worshipped you like some sacred vestal virgin... I've never even touched you! And you wouldn't come back... you wouldn't even come back and say goodbye. There was nothing I would not have done for you, nothing...Christ, I even killed to please you! Do you remember the spiders there they were, harmless creatures, minding their own business and hoping to be left in peace. But oh no, you wanted them killed because they were ugly and frightened you. Well there's someone I'm frightened of too, Christine, someone I've been frightened of for a long, long time, and tonight I'm going to make him disappear so I won't ever be frightened again. I'm a wonderful magician, you see Christine, I can make anyone disappear, if I really want to." -Erik
"My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond my comprehension, no art or skill upon this entire planet that lies beyond the mastery of my hand. And yet, like Faust, I look in vain, I learn in vain. . . . .For as long as I live, no woman will ever look on me in love." -Erik
"He made no movement and no sound..and yet I am almost certain he had begun to cry..." -Christine
"I am like everyone else! Inside I am just like everyone else! Why can't people understand that?" -Erik
"Slowly, hesitantly, as if fighting against the warning instincts of a lifetime, he held out his gloved hand to help me ascend the carriage steps. It was the first time he had ever invited direct physical contact from me and the moment was fraught with tense significance for us both..." -Christine
"Hell is full of burning boats Nadir, I daresay that's what makes it so bloddy hot!" -Erik
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