So in case you couldn't tell by my last chapter I am in love with Susan Kay's Phantom. So this chapter will be a list of my favorite Susan Kay Phantom quotes!

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- "Such a little thing really, a kiss... most people don't give it a moments consideration. I've lived on this earth for half a century without knowing what it is to be kissed... and I'll never know now." ~Erik.

- "Chained by fate and shackled by pride, he starved in silent pain; and because I lacked the courage of a rose, I could not set him free." ~Christine

- "My heart foreseeing your condemnation, into this tomb I made my way by stealth, and here, far from every human gaze, in your arms I wished to die." ~Aida

- "... all the grief in the world seemed to be distilled through those soft vibrant notes. It was as though the devil himself wept teardrops of pure sound."

- "There was so much beauty in your soul Erik. So much beauty that I fear now because of... folly will never see the light of day." ~Nadir

- "Happiness is like the first intoxication of morphine. It doesn't last very long." ~Erik

- "A dark and towering shadow rising like the Phoenix from the ashes ... malevolent ... omnipotent ... The Phantom of the Opera."

- "He wished always to surround himself with beauty and I knew that a diamond and a butterfly was equal in his eyes." ~Nadir

- "My voice was my only one beauty. My only power. My only hope." ~Erik

- "Power! I was beginning to acquire quite a taste for it, to see it as a very satisfactory substitute for happiness... for love." ~Erik

- "I'd loved her more than anything else upon this Earth... But my love had destroyed her, reduced her to a pitiful creature barely aware of her own actions... made her as mad as I was myself." ~Erik

- "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... For as long as I live no woman will ever look on me in love. ~Erik

- "There is so much darkness in my head, sometimes it frightens me too. But it need not be like this Christine. If I could just live like other men, walk through the Bois in daylight and feel the sun and wind upon my naked face." ~Erik

- "I couldn't hope to be a man to her, I couldn't ever be a real, breathing, living man waking at her side and reaching out for her... But I could be here angel!" ~ Erik

- "In darkness you came to me and in darkness you left." ~Giovanni

- "All beauty must have its imperfections. All happiness its share of sorrow."

- "Disappointment is such an exhausting emotion. All that energy dissipated first in painful hoping and then in futile hopeless resentment. It's like waiting for a birthday present that never materializes." ~Erik.

- "I am like everyone else! Inside I am like everyone else! Why can't people understand that?" ~Erik

- "I love you, Erik. I love you in so many ways... But my love is of a child afraid to grow up!" ~Christine

- "Life is never ours to take, Erik. If you remember nothing of what I have taught you, remember that." ~Father Mansart

- "Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that I catch my breath in wonder before the vignette disappears sinking as a pebble into the quicksand of regret and recrimination." ~Giovanni

- "The darkness in his soul cast a shadow that seemed to embrace my own, and as I looked at him I had the strong feeling that I was watching him drown before my very eyes in the black waters of his own past." ~Giovanni

- "Erik... I hope you'll never become so good at building walls that you can't see when they need to be pulled down." ~Giovanni

-"None of us can choose where we shall love..." ~Erik.

-"I have often thought I would be quite happy as a spider. Even a spider has the right to mate." ~Erik

- "Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with with a voice, a face, a name." ~Erik.

-"He held on to my fingers for a moment enclosing them between his palms and I became aware that he had stared to tremble...the boy was crying...crying because I had spoken kindly and touched him with affection." ~Giovanni

-"Night after night the nightingale came to beg for divine love, but though the rose trembled at the sound of his voice, her petals remained closed to him."

-"The cuckoo is a beautiful bird." ~Raoul

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Those are some of my most favorite quotes from Susan Kay's Phantom! There are so many amazing ones this was so hard! Thank you for reading!

Comment your favorites and comment any I don't have listed here!!