"I am dying of love. That’s how it is. I loved her so! And I love her still. And I am dying of love for her, I tell you! If you knew how beautiful she was when she let me kiss her. It was the first time, the first time I ever kissed a woman. Yes, alive. I kissed her alive. And she looked as beautiful as if she had been dead!”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera














