"None of us can choose where we will love. . ."
-Erik(Phantom)
"So brilliant and yet he never figured it out."
-Sac
"I can make anything disappear, if I really want to. Anything except my face."
-Erik(Phantom)
"Oh, Dagora" he sighed "what a truly boring little fart you are at times!"
-Erik(Phantom)
"It's a good job we didn?t have a chandelier . . ."
-Erik(Phantom)
"Wanted one ghost, experience and good character required. Ability to sing tenor would be considered an advantage."
-Garnier(Phantom)
"The Corps de Ballet were already calling me 'The Phantom of the Opera,' and intriguing sobriquet which appealed to me very strongly, until I realized that it would mean signing my ransom notes P.T.O. One did not wish to descend to the ridiculous!"
-Erik(Phantom)
"O.G. I became and O.G. I have remained. But I still liked to think of myself as the Phantom. . ."
-Erik(Phantom)
"When you can no longer bear to get wet with total indifference, you are getting old."
-Erik(Phantom)
"A little scientific experiment, child . . . a study of that curiosity known as human behavior."
-Erik(Phantom)
"You really musnt take that to heart. We all make errors of judgment from time to time."
-Erik(Phantom)
"I beg your pardon, I'm afraid you've really lost me there. I think you must have a wire crossed some where."
-Erik(Phantom)
"You're always watching. What a pity you never quite manage to see."
-Erik(Phantom)
"but I might as well listen, I really had nothing better to do at the moment, and I could always put my hands over my ears if it was too painful."
-Erik(Phantom)
"I'd like to take my heart out of my body and beat it to a pulp for betraying be in this truly undignified manner."
-Erik(Phantom)
"I appear to have acquired a nurse!"
-Erik(Phantom)
"There's a fatal flaw running through her, like a hairline crack in a Ming dynasty vase, but that very imperfection makes me love her with even greater tenderness."
-Erik(Phantom)
"'My dear, it's the only thing to do, surely you realize by now that you and I exist only in his presence!'"
-Christine(Phantom)
"I wish. . . I wish I were that Cat!"
-Christine(Phantom)
"It's a terrible mistake to start pitying the enemy!"
-Erik(Phantom)
"So make them your friend."
-Sac
"They say the North Pole can be very pleasant at this time of year. . ."
-Erik(Phantom)
". . . but he only laughed when I questioned him and told me that his traveling arrangements were really as mundane as everyone else?s now that he had put the dragon out to grass."
-Christine(Phantom)
"My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. 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, I learn in vain. . . . For as long as I live, no woman will ever look on me in love."
-Erik(Phantom)
"Oh, nothing more than a little letter of welcome. You know, I consider it very poor spirited of Poligny and Debienne simply to give up the ghost like this."
-Erik(Phantom)
"Oh, it was certainly painful, quite unbearably painful . . . but I had not desire to put my hands over my ears!"
-Erik(Phantom)
"It was like listening to an extraordinarily talented zombie!"
-Erik(Phantom)
"Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with a voice, a face, a name. . ."
-Erik(Phantom)
"'Oh, yes,' said this newly awakened side of me with masterful cunning, 'I know all about that, I accepted that ages ago, I'm only going back up there now to amuse myself, truly. . . Look, you can rely on me to be sensible. Have I ever not been sensible? Have I ever shown you up, made you ashamed of me? I think you might trust me to behave now.'"
-Erik(Phantom)
"Such quiet, controlled, and yet infinitely destructive sadness made me ache to comfort her even as my eyes devoured her."
-Erik(Phantom)
"Go away, go away, go away!"
-Christine(Phantom)
"I was almost smiling at this splendid animation, governing an absurd impulse to cheer, when Christine suddenly put her head down on the dressing table and began to cry like a lost child."
-Erik(Phantom)
"Again and again I toss her to the sky like a young gyrfalcon and each time she soars with greater confidence and strength before returning to the safety of her master's gloved hand."
-Erik(Phantom)
"Oh, Christine! If there were indeed a loving God in heaven it should be my arm around your waist now, m shoulder upon which you lean in your utter exhaustion."
-Erik(Phantom)
"The mirror showed me my demented reflection as I began to beat my hands frenziedly on the think glass. 'Christine!' His voice took hold of me like two mighty hands, no longer cold and remote, but gentle and strangely sad."
-Christine(Phantom)
"It it's possible to be jealous of a shawl, then I was wickedly jealous."
-Erik(Phantom)
"I wanted Christine; all of Christine."
-Erik(Phantom)
"Don't tempt me to clear the stage."
-Erik(Phantom)
"Beyond the lake likes a hidden world of magic, a temple of dreams which I explore with ever deepening wonder."
-Christine(Phantom)
"Night after night the nightingale came to bed for divine love, but though the rose trembled at the sound of his voice, her petals remained closed to him . . ."
-Erik(Phantom)
"Morphine is a vice that delivers me from greater sin."
-Erik(Phantom)
"No need for jealousy, no need to flaunt her little powers of seduction. I could not hope to take him from her. I didn?t dare!"
-Christine(Phantom)
"Then I did what any sensible person surely does when Erik gives her a direct command. I obeyed him without question"
-Christine(Phantom)
"Absolute dedication to my vocation, absolute submission to his will."
-Christine(Phantom)
"Sometimes I wonder if he?s ever known a single moment of true happiness here on this earth . . ."
-Christine(Phantom)
"Are you really sure you want me to meddle, Erik? I might break something that you can't mend."
-Christine(Phantom)
"Yes," he agreed gravely, "yes. . . I think that is a thing you might well do eventually. Still, no matter. It's a risk that must be taken."
-Erik(Phantom)
"Well perhaps. . . perhaps it's not reality that I want to see."
-Christine(Phantom)
"You're not opposed to deception of the senses, then?" he asked with guarded optimism. "You could perhaps, under certain circumstances, find some illusions . . . acceptable?"
-Erik(Phantom)
"Damn you, Edouard!"
-Raoul(Phantom)
"I must deplore your young man's taste in company, my dear," he said chillingly.
-Erik(Phantom)
"Keep away from the edge!"
-Giovanni(Phantom)
"Surely He will hear me from there!"
-Erik(Phantom)
"Oh Erik, I think He would here you no matter where you are."
-Sac
"A visor for a visor! What care I;
"What curious eye doth quote deformities?
"Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me."
-Romeo I.iv. 30-32
"What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearing."
-Gandalf(The Two Towers)
"If all the world's a stage, then techies are gods."
-Marcell
"In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons, and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer."
-Slayer Prophesy(Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
"Giles, unto every generation is born one who must run the annual talent-less show. You cannot escape your destiny."
-Buffy(Puppetshow)
"If you had any shred of decency, you would have participated, or at least, um, helped."
Giles(Puppetshow)
"Nah! I thik I'll take on your traditional role . . . and watch!"
-Buffy(Puppetshow)
"And mock!?"
-Xander(Puppetshow)
"And laugh!"
-Willow(Puppetshow)
"You have to see a counselor. Everyone who saw the body has to see a crisis counselor."
-Mr. Flutie(Teacher's Pet)
"But I really don't think I need . . ."
-Buffy(Teacher's Pet)
"We all need help with our feelings. Otherwise we bottle them up, and before you know it, powerful laxatives are involved. I really believe if we all reach out to one another we can beat this thing. I'm always here if you need a huge,(he jumps) but not a real hug! Because there's not touching, this school is sensitive to wrong touching."
-Mr. Flutie(Teacher's Pet)
"But I really, really don"t. . . "
-Buffy(Teacher's Pet)
"No, you have to talk to a counselor and start the healing. You have to heal."
-Mr. Flutie(Teacher's Pet)
"You were looking at my neck."
-Xander(Prophecy Girl)
"What?"
-Angel(Prophecy Girl)
"You were checking out my neck! I saw that!"
-Xander(Prophecy Girl)
"No, I wasn't."
-Angel(Prophecy Girl)
"Just keep your distance pall."
-Xander(Prophecy Girl)
"I wasn't looking at your neck!"
-Angel(Prophecy Girl)
"I told you to eat before we left."
-Xander(Prophecy Girl)
"Mr. Spock," Kirk said, "where the hell is the power you promised me?"
-Kirk(ST IV)
"Admiral," Mr. Spock said, "you must wait one damn minute."
-Spock(ST IV)
"Despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer . . . The question that has never been answered: 'What does woman want?'"
-Freud.