{"quotes":[{"text":"I am so tired of this gothic crap,” I muttered. “Just once, I want to meet the villain in a cheerful, brightly lit room. Possibly one with kittens.","author":"Seanan McGuire","tags":["an-artificial-night","cliche","funny","gothic","humor","kittens","october-daye","sarcasm","seanan-mcguire","toby-daye","villain"],"id":4475,"author_id":"Seanan+McGuire"},{"text":"In starlit nights I saw you,So cruelly you kissed me.Your lips a magic world,Your sky all hung with jewels.The killing moonWill come too soon.","author":"Echo and the Bunnymen","tags":["ambivalence","gothic","love","lyrics","moon","music","romance"],"id":6059,"author_id":"Echo+and+the+Bunnymen"},{"text":"His character would be blamed, loathed, discussed, and adored – but somewhere there, behind his mask of a hero, Cardew would remain faceless.Anonymous.","author":"Simona Panova","tags":["adore","adored","anonymous","behind","blame","blamed","cardew","character","discuss","discussed","faceless","gothic","hate","hero","heroic","hide","loathe","loathed","love","loved","mask","masked","mystery","pretend","pretending","romance","unknown","young-adult"],"id":7810,"author_id":"Simona+Panova"},{"text":"I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.","author":"Simona Panova","tags":["convincing","gothic","lie","lying","nightmare","nightmarish","pretend","pretending","romance","sacrifice","tell","truth","young-adult"],"id":12882,"author_id":"Simona+Panova"},{"text":"After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn’s for an oyster supper.","author":"Michael Cox","tags":["fiction","first-lines","gothic","murder","opening-sentences"],"id":17883,"author_id":"Michael+Cox"},{"text":"I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever forgot, or let his disguise drop for a minute, he would be recognized at once and driven away; he must be extremely careful to use the same voice every time, and present the same face and the same manner without a slip; he must be constantly on guard against betraying himself. I wondered if he would turn back to his true self when he was dead.","author":"Shirley Jackson","tags":["demons","foreboding","gothic","magic","pretense","suspicion"],"id":20786,"author_id":"Shirley+Jackson"},{"text":"Much later, Alice would wonder what might have happened if she had gone to bed when she was supposed to.","author":"Django Wexler","tags":["books","gothic","spooky"],"id":23220,"author_id":"Django+Wexler"},{"text":"The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...Dead silence.Literally dead.","author":"Simona Panova","tags":["anguish","appalling","appealing","atmosphere","atmospheric","calm","calmness","dead","death","goth","gothic","gothic-romance","literal","literally","loud","mysterious","mystery","noise","noiseless","onimous","pain","painful","quiet","romance","romantic","serene","silence","silent","sinister","suspense","tranquil","unbroken","yell","young-adult"],"id":23410,"author_id":"Simona+Panova"},{"text":"The crow cawed again overhead, and a strong sea wind came in and burst through the trees, making the green pine needles shake themselves all over the place. That sound always gave me goose bumps, the good kind. It was the sound an orphan governess hears in a book,before a mad woman sets the bed curtains on fire.","author":"April Genevieve Tucholke","tags":["crow","gothic","horror","sound"],"id":23578,"author_id":"April+Genevieve+Tucholke"},{"text":"You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?","author":"Simona Panova","tags":["allow","boy","desire","desires","fancy","flirt","forbid","forbidden","girl","goth","gothic","kiss","kissing","let","licence","longing","love","loved","loving","once","permission","relationship","relationships","romance","special","suspense","twice","want","wish","yearn","yearning","young-adult","young-adult-gothic-romance","young-adult-romance"],"id":24769,"author_id":"Simona+Panova"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":163,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}