“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.” LongSoulCareLyingHeavenAnxietySurfaceYour SoulLayersRadiance Book:Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Source: Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh
“For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt myself a changed girl. A strange melancholy was stealing over me, a melancholy that I would not have interrupted. Dim thoughts of death began to open, and an idea that I was slowly sinking took gentle, and, somehow, not unwelcome possession of me. If it was sad, the tone of mind which this induced was also sweet. Whatever it might be, my soul acquiesced in it.” IfsMindStillsIdeasSoulMightNightGirlFeltMorningChangedStrangeSweetPossessionStealingMy SoulGentleToneMelancholyEvery MorningSinkingInterruptedUnwelcomeThoughts Of Death Book:Carmilla: A Critical Edition Source: Carmilla: A Critical Edition
“Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense of exploration, the undefinable interest of a story, and above all, something forbidden, to stimulate the contumacious appetite.” HumansSoulStoriesInterestSecretLustExplorationAppetiteForbiddenHuman SoulKnowledge Is PowerPower Of One Book:Uncle Silas: Horror Collections Source: Uncle Silas: Horror Collections
“Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in human flesh.” WorldHumansSoulSometimesBornFlesh Author:Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
