“I have been in love with no one, and never shall” she whispered, “unless it should be with you.” How beautiful she looked in the moonlight!
-Carmilla, Sheridan Le Fanu, 1871
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You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me and still come with me, and hating me through death and after.
Sheridan Le Fanu, from 'Carmilla'