Carmilla

But to die as lovers may—to die together, so that they may live together

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.

my grief was quite of a different kind.

majordomo and his myrmidons

The precautions of nervous people are infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imitate them.

I see it all, as divers see what is going on above them, through a medium, dense, rippling, but transparent.

ish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me and still come with me. and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature

Carmilla was gone

Sometimes there came a sensation as if a hand was drawn softly along my cheek and neck. Sometimes it was as if warm lips kissed me, and longer and longer and more lovingly as they reached my throat,

You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish