Quotes of: Gothic Keyword

I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference.

Kelly Osbourne

People don't get gentler as they get older but rather, harder.

The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery

I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.

George Saunders

What could she have done? She was a heroine, and with that came certain obligations.

Nachtstürm Castle: A Gothic Austen Novel

I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

Amy Tan

If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic buildi...

Charles Jencks

Such a narrative as this demands some sort of physical consolation for its spiritual tribulation. Our heroine received it in one last cup of tea. The reader may be advised to do so likewise.

Nachtstürm Castle: A Gothic Austen Novel

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment." ( )

The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler; and English Summer: A Gothic Romance

If you keep your head screwed on right in so doing, then your experience thus gained is most valuable in enabling you to gauge human beings and their ways. (Advice in letter from 8th Duke of Rutland, to his son later the 9th Duke.

The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery

Do you know a cure for me?" Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water." Salt water?" I asked him. Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.

Seven Gothic Tales

Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its ...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

In the attempt to find the just measure of horror and terror, I came upon the writing of Carole Gill whose work revealed a whole new dimension to me. The figure of the gothic child was there. Stoker's horror was there. Along with the romance! At the ...

Love

Another strike of lightening – now accompanied by the deep-bellied rumble, and the horse reared, incidentally setting Henry very picturesquely against the inconstant moon. Alas, Catherine was deeply engaged in her argument with Old Edric and this m...

Nachtstürm Castle: A Gothic Austen Novel

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

Nathan Parsons

I had a gothic phase, and now I'm more edgy chic.

Ashley Benson

Don’t get all gothic and emo on me now. - Tory

Matthew Leeth

I wouldn't consider myself Goth, but I love Gothic pieces.

Tyson Chandler

I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.

Raf Simons

Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life.

Greg Iles