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Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.

You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.

Everyone dies. I just choose the time and place for some of them!

You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!

Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But he was too ugly! And he had to hide his genius or use it to play tricks with, when, with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar. Ah, yes, we must need pity the Opera ghost.

None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.

I tore off my mask so as not to lose one of her tears... and she did not run away!...and she did not die!... She remained alive, weeping over me, weeping with me. We cried together! I have tasted all the happiness the world can offer.

He stared dully at the desolate, cold road and the pale, dead night. Nothing was colder or more dead than his heart. He had loved an angel and now he despised a woman.

There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.

In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.

I am going to die of love....daroga....I am dying of love .... That's how it is... I loved her so! And I love her still...daroga.....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, daroga, 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!

Blood!...Blood!... That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!

why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?

Why, you love him! Your fear, your terror, all of that is just love and love of the most exquisite kind, the kind which people do not admit even to themselves.

A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!

Now I want to live like everybody else. I want to have a wife like everybody else and to take her out on Sundays. I have invented a mask that makes me look like anybody. People will not even turn round in the streets. You will be the happiest of women. And we will sing, all by ourselves, till we swoon away with delight. You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself. If you loved me I should be as gentle as a lamb; and you could do anything with me that you pleased.

No, he is not a ghost; he is a man of Heaven and earth, that is all.

An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

I give you five minutes to spare your blushes. here is the little bronze key that opens the ebony caskets on the mantle piece in the Louise-Phillipe room. In one of the caskets you will find a scorpion, in the other, a grasshopper, both very cleverly imitated in Japanese bronze: they will say yes or no for you. If you turn the scorpion round, that will mean to me, when I return that you have said yes. The grasshopper will mean no... The grasshopper, be careful of the grass hopper! A grasshopper does not only turn: it hops! It hops! And it hops jolly high!

All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)

Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again!...Oh, mad Christine, who wanted to see me!

I am not really wicked. Love me, and you will see!

Erik: Are you very tired? Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.

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“If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“I tore off my mask so as not to lose one of her tears... and she did not run away!...and she did not die!... She remained alive, weeping over me, weeping with me. We cried together! I have tasted all the happiness the world can offer.” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But he was too ugly! And he had to hide his genius or use it to play tricks with, when, with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar. Ah, yes, we must need pity the Opera ghost...” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

phantom of the opera gaston leroux quotes

“He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again!...Oh, mad Christine, who wanted to see me!” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“Are people so unhappy when they love?" "Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them.” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“Erik: Are you very tired? Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“Blood!...Blood!... That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was as golden as the sun's rays, and her soul as clear and blue as her eyes. She wheedled her mother, was kind to her doll, took great care of her frock and her red shoes and her fiddle, but loved most of all, when she went to sleep, to hear the Angel of Music.” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“I am going to die of love....daroga....I am dying of love .... That's how it is... I loved her so! And I love her still...daroga.....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, daroga, 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, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“Now I want to live like everybody else. I want to have a wife like everybody else and to take her out on Sundays. I have invented a mask that makes me look like anybody. People will not even turn round in the streets. You will be the happiest of women. And we will sing, all by ourselves, till we swoon away with delight. You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself. If you loved me I should be as gentle as a lamb; and you could do anything with me that you pleased.” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at six better than men of fifty, which, you must admit is very wonderful. Sometimes, the Angel comes much later, because the children are naughty and won't learn their lessons or practice their scales. And sometimes, he does not come at all, because the children have a wicked heart or a bad conscience.” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“He fills me with horror and I do not hate him. How can I hate him, Raoul? Think of Erik at my feet, in the house on the lake, underground. He accuses himself, he curses himself, he implores my forgiveness!...He confesses his cheat. He loves me! He lays at my feet an immense and tragic love. ... He has carried me off for love!...He has imprisoned me with him, underground, for love!...But he respects me: he crawls, he moans, he weeps!...And, when I stood up, Raoul, and told him that I could only despise him if he did not, then and there, give me my liberty...he offered it...he offered to show me the mysterious road...Only...only he rose too...and I was made to remember that, though he was not an angel, nor a ghost, nor a genius, he remained the voice...for he sang. And I listened ... and stayed!...That night, we did not exchange another word. He sang me to sleep.” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“Holy angel, in Heaven blessed, My spirit longs with thee to rest” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow which followed her like her own shadow, which stopped when she stopped, which started again when she did and which made no more noise than a well-conducted shadow should.” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“But do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine?” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“He stared dully at the desolate, cold road and the pale, dead night. Nothing was colder or more dead than his heart. He had loved an angel and now he despised a woman.” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“Our lives are one masked ball.” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'someone,' like everybody else. But he was too ugly! And he had to hide his genius or use it to play tricks with, when, with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and in the end had to content himself with a cellar. Surely we must pity the Opera ghost!” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever.” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the explanation in a trembling voice: “It’s the ghost!” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

“Does he love you so much?" "He would commit murder for me.” ― Gaston Leroux, quote from The Phantom of the Opera

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"You will beg my pardon, one day, for all those ugly words, Raoul, and when you do I shall forgive you!" Christine, page 38

This quote succinctly captures the essential features of Raoul's character. He has just insulted Christine and accused her of being deceptive because she will not let him out of her dressing room to go after Erik. After Christine refuses to let him out of the room, he bursts into tears. Christine allows him to insult her. She thought of nothing but to keep him from leaving the room. The quote shows how Christine is willing to take hits to her integrity and pride in order to keep Raoul safe, to keep Erik from killing him, and also more generally to maintain the delicate network of relationships that prevent Erik from causing any other kind of harm. What makes it even more difficult is that Christine does not feel at liberty to tell Raoul about Erik and his background. She is under considerable pressure, and Raoul makes no attempt to understand her, despite claiming to love her. Nonetheless Christine does not bow under pressure and still commits to forgiving him when he realizes the mistake he has made. This moment is one of many that display Christine's incredible maturity, and also a moment in which Raoul—her lover—places enormous pressure on her to divulge her secrets. This all make clear how different Christine and Raoul are from one another.

As I had not the same desperate reasons as M. le Vicomte for accepting death, I returned, after giving him a word of encouragement, to my panel… Narrator, page 88

This is when the Persian attempts to look for an opening in the mirrored walls of the torture chamber and gives Raoul some words of encouragement. Raoul’s uselessness and fatalistic attitude are partly a result of his love for Christine, but they are also a result of his inability to think rationally and quickly in problematic situations. After banging on the walls and calling out to Christine, he sees no other option than to die. His love for Christine, in a sense, is a kind of lazy, apathetic love—however contradictory that may sound. This is because, though he claims to love Christine, he uses only the feelings in his heart to attempt to get her back. He lacks the intellect and cunning to carry out his goals and aspirations, an orientation that certainly does not seem to change much at all over the course of the story.

Then Christine gave way to fear. She trembled lest Erik should discover where Raoul was hidden; she told us in a few hurried words that Erik had gone quite mad with love and that he had decided to kill everybody and himself with everybody if she did not consent to become his wife. Narrator, page 82

Time and time again, Christine is shown to be the character on which there is the most responsibility and pressure. Though Erik is (as the title suggests) is the main subject of the book, Christine is no doubt the most troubled and dynamic character. Erik’s character development truly comes out at the very end, when he consents to Raoul and Christine’s marriage and gives the Persian some of his belongings; but that is nothing compared to how much Christine has to suffer and sacrifice throughout the novel in an attempt to keep both her lovers (and their egos) from exploding. She is a genuinely compassionate character that commits acts of wrongdoing only to protect the feelings and interests of others, to the point that she is willing to commit suicide to end her suffering. But she does not take her anger or disgust out on anyone but herself, showing another aspect of her delicate but firm personality.

As for Richard, who felt himself turning red under Moncharmin’s eyes, he took Mme. Giry by the wrist and shook it violently. In a voice growling and rolling like thunder, he roared: “Why should I know better than you where the twenty-thousand francs went to? Why? Answer me!” Narrator & Ricard, page 62

Bouts of anger and violent reactions are the bread and butter of this book – whether they come from Erik, Raoul, or in this case, Richard and Moncharmin. The managers find themselves on the wrong end of a game of deception and trickery (or at least they continue to think that it is a game) and take their anger out on Mme. Giry. Erik makes fools of them, and this is riveting instance in which Richard seizes Mme. Giry’s wrist and treats her with a kind of disrespect that she has never experienced before. It pushes the boundaries and challenges the characters in ways they have never been tested before. Both managers adjust their behavior accordingly and give Erik the serious attention with which their predecessors treated him.

I have had occasion to say that the managers’ mood had undergone a disagreeable change for some time past and to convey the fact that this change was due not to the fall of the chandelier on the famous night of the gala performance. Narrator, page 59

The dramatic shift in the behavior and attitude of both managers represents the irony of an attempt to sabotage the preexisting order of things in the Opera House. The new managers, Richard and Moncharmin, do not heed the warnings and advice of Mme. Giry or their predecessors: they attempt to sell Erik’s box and remove Mme. Giry from her position as its box keeper. In the end, as a result of a few clever (and, in the case of the chandelier, deadly) tricks, Erik manages to scare the managers. Their fear shows the irony of resistance and also the irony of sabotage, wherein they tried to foil and disregard Erik’s request, but instead ended up facing a great deal of embarrassment and loses public confidence.

“The misfortune is,” said Raoul, with a grin, “that it’s quite possible. With Erik, you never know. Is it Erik? Is it the cat? Is it the ghost? No, with Erik, you can’t tell!” Raoul, page 53

Raoul’s obsession and preoccupation with Erik comprises his relationship with his older brother, who is baffled at the fact that Raoul is shooting cats in the middle of the night. This leads to a strain in their relationship, and because of his intense love for Christine, Raoul chooses her over Philippe (who says that he will not allow Raoul to marry Christine). This is yet another example of the immaturity Raoul displays in the name of love, and there is no indication that Raoul is able to navigate long-standing, important relationships (or new ones) with any care. Ironically, his reckless and selfish behavior makes, marrying Christine all the more difficult.

That tragic evening was bad for everybody. Carlotta fell ill. As for Christine Daee, she disappeared after the performance. A fortnight elapsed during which she was seen neither at the Opera not outside. Narrator, page 33

The quote captures the dark overtone of the story but also the high degree of uncertainty and suspense that Leroux weaves into the plot. The tensions between characters are often a result of secrets and unexplainable events, particularly as carried out by Erik. Relying on each other, especially for Christine and Raoul, becomes a matter of trusting that the secrets they hold (Christine’s secrets are very important) are meant to keep their relationships safe.

The Comte de Chagny…was a great aristocrat and a good-looking man, above middle height and with attractive features, in spite of his hard forehead and his rather cold eyes. He was exquisitely polite to the women and a little haughty to the men, who did not always forgive him for his successes in society. Narrator, page 11

Leroux gives a description of Philippe in such detail that one might expect that Philippe plays a large role in the story. However it becomes obvious that Philippe actually plays a noticeably small role in the story itself, dying at the very end. Raoul is not shown to express any kind of sorrow or remorse at fighting with him or at the fact that he was killed at the hands of the Siren when he went looking for Raoul. Raoul’s selfishness becomes evident yet again in how he interacts with Philippe, whom Leroux describes as very proud of Raoul and pleased to foresee a glorious career for him in the navy. Philippe also spoiled Raoul, and such an upbringing might be one of many reasons that Raoul behaves rashly and impatiently.

The horrid news soon spread all over the Opera, where Joseph Buquet was very popular. The dressing rooms emptied and the ballet-girls, crowding around Sorelli like timid sheep around their shepherdess, made for the foyer through the ill-lit passages and staircases, trotting as fast as their little pink legs could carry them. Narrator, page 10

The world of the Opera is vast and complex, and one death excites and elicits the reactions, surprise, shock, and sorrow of everyone. The various types of actors and workers represent, in some sense, a society of sorts. Many have never left the Opera after coming there, and others are well connected to the outsiders and spectators who come to see it. The various moving parts of the Opera become compromised entirely – not just mechanically, but emotionally and psychologically too – at the news of Buquet’s death. There is incredible commotion, with everyone from ballet dancers to the chorus-manager showing concern and asking questions about how he died.

…Christine uttered a deep sigh, which was answered by a groan. She turned her head, saw Raoul and started. She looked at the doctor, on whom she bestowed a smile, then at her maid, then at Raoul again. “Monsieur,” she said, in a voice not much above a whisper, “who are you?” Narrator & Christina, page 12

As the reader later finds out, the reason Christine pretends not to know Raoul is because Erik is watching – and she had already assured Erik that Raoul was no more than a friend. The question points to the incredibly difficult decisions that Christine has to make throughout the story, and the fact that the two men who claim to love her actually make her more tense and distressed than any of the other characters. Their love is quite selfish, and Raoul in particular fails to realize how much he is hurting Christine. However, this question is not only an attempt to pacify Erik, but also a (somewhat) successful attempt to save Raoul from Erik’s clutches.

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“ He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants or the concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to say, a spectral shade.”

In the Prologue, the narrator declares his purpose for writing this book is to expose the truth behind rumors of an Opera Ghost. Although the legends of the phantom are mostly fantasy, a mysterious figure was behind many of the strange incidents. A main theme of the text is superstition versus skepticism, though the story shows that both beliefs can have merit and truth.

“‘Oh, tonight I gave you my soul and I am dead!’ Christine replied. ‘Your soul is a beautiful thing, child,’ replied the grave man's voice, ‘and I thank you. No emperor ever received so fair a gift. The angels wept tonight .’”

Raoul overhears Christine speaking to a mysterious man in her dressing room, and her declarations cause him to become jealous. Erik, the Opera Ghost, appears only as a voice to Christine because he is afraid that she will reject him for his monstrous appearance. This passage displays the power dynamic between Christine and Erik, as Erik gave Christine her miraculous voice in exchange for her soul.

“they had hesitated until the last moment to tell us this curious story, which our skeptical minds were certainly not prepared to entertain. But the announcement of the death of Joseph Buquet had served them as a brutal reminder that, whenever they had disregarded the ghost's wishes, some fantastic or disastrous event had brought them to a sense of their dependence.”

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'The Phantom Of The Opera' is a gothic novel written by Gaston Leroux that has been adapted into a famous musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber , as well as adapted to films.

The plot is centered on the protagonist of the novel, an opera singer named Christine Daae, who becomes an overnight success after singing at the Palais Garnier Opera House in Paris. This opera house is notoriously known to be haunted by a masked phantom, who is later revealed to be Erik.

The central conflict of the story focuses on the hauntings of the opera by this masked phantom, who falls in love with Christine Daae and seeks to keep her with him. Although the story of 'The Phantom Of The Opera' is fictional, it has been reported that parts of the story are inspired by real-life events.

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Here is a list of some of the most famous quotes from the 'The Phantom Of The Opera ' including 'The Phantom Of The Opera' book quotes.

1. "Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was as golden as the sun's rays, and her soul as clear and blue as her eyes. She wheedled her mother, was kind to her doll, took great care of her frock and her red shoes and her fiddle, but loved most of all, when she went to sleep, to hear the Angel of Music."

-Gaston Leroux, 'The Phantom Of The Opera'.

2. "You will be the happiest of women. And we will sing, all by ourselves, till we swoon away with delight."

3. "I'm a new man, Giovanni. If you want to imitate me, you'll have to abandon the mask and get a face like this one."

4. "Our lives are one masked ball."

5. "Why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?"

6. "Holy angel, in Heaven blessed, my spirit longs with thee to rest."

7. "Does he love you so much? He would commit murder for me."

8. "He fills me with horror and I do not hate him. How can I hate him, Raoul? Think of Erik at my feet, in the house on the lake, underground. He accuses himself, he curses himself, he implores my forgiveness!... He confesses his cheat. He loves me!"

9. "I am the little boy who went into the sea to rescue your scarf."

10. "When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever."

11. "But do you love me? If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine?"

12. "He stared dully at the desolate, cold road and the pale, dead night. Nothing was colder or more dead than his heart. He had loved an angel and now he despised a woman."

These hauntingly beautiful famous 'Phantom Of The Opera' quotes will make you fall deeply in love with this novel and its symbolic mask. The show and book are both a true sensation, loved by people all around the world, and many dream of seeing the show on stage. Can you spot quotes from Christine, Raoul, and more key characters here?

13. "You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself."

14. "While the old man told this story, Raoul looked at Christine's blue eyes and golden hair; and Christine thought that Lotte was very lucky to hear the Angel of Music when she went to sleep."

15. "Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!"

16. "Pearls are for tears, Erik. Didn't you know?"

17. "Don Juan Triumphant is finished; and now I want to live like everybody else. I want to have a wife like everybody else and to take her out on Sundays."

18. "No one ever sees the Angel; but he is heard by those who are meant to hear him. He often comes when they least expect him, when they are sad and disheartened."

19. "I am going to die of love... daroga... I am dying of love... That's how it is... I loved her so! And I love her still... daroga... and I am dying of love for her, I tell you!"

20. "Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at six better than men of fifty, which, you must admit is very wonderful."

Here is a list of some famous quotes from musicals and the musical adaptations of the novel, with original song music and lyrics by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Charles Hart. Come face to face with quotes from Christine, Erik, Raoul, Carlotta, and more characters here.

21. "In all your fantasies you always knew that man and mystery were both in you."

-'Music Of The Night', 'The Phantom Of The Opera' musical.

22. "Turn your thoughts away from cold, unfeeling light

And listen to the music of the night."

23. "Then say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime; Let me lead you from your solitude."

-'All I Ask Of You', 'The Phantom Of The Opera' musical.

24. "Past the point of no return - no backward glances: the games we've played till now are at an end..."

-'Point Of No Return', 'The Phantom Of The Opera' musical.

25. "My words will warm and calm you. Let me be your freedom."

26.  "Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in to the power of the music of the night."

27. "You were once my one companion. You were all that mattered. You were once a friend and father. Then my world was shattered."

-'Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again', 'The Phantom Of The Opera' musical.

28. "Floating, falling, sweet intoxication."

-Charles Hart, 'Music Of The Night', 'The Phantom Of The Opera' musical.

29. "Those who speak of what they know, find too late, that prudent silence is wise Joseph Buquet, hold your tongue. He will burn you with the heat of his eyes!"

-Madame Giry, 'The Phantom of the Opera', Original London Cast Recording.

30. "Remember there are worse things than a shattered chandelier..."

-'Why So Silent', 'The Phantom Of The Opera' musical.

31. "Our Don Juan must lose some weight; it's not healthy in a man of Piangi's age. And my managers must learn that their place is in an office!... As for our star, Miss Christine Daae... no doubt she'll do her best. It's true her voice is good; she knows, though, should she wish to excel, she has much still to learn, if pride will let her return to me, her teacher."

-Phantom, 'The Phantom Of The Opera' musical.

32. "Free her! Do what you like only free her! Have you no pity? Your lover makes a passionate plea! Please, Raoul, it's useless."

-'Down Once More', 'The Phantom Of The Opera' musical.

33. "Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime. Lead me, save me from my solitude. Say you want me with you, here beside you. Anywhere you go, let me go, too. Christine; that's all I ask of you."

34. "Recall those days, look back on all those times. Think of the things we'll never do. There will never be a day when I won't think of you."

-'Think Of Me', 'The Phantom Of The Opera' musical.

Here's a list of quotes from Christine, Erik, Phantom, Raoul, Meg Giry and others from various adaptations of the gothic horror novel and musical, 'The Phantom Of The Opera'. These

34. "Oh Christine he's so handsome."

-'The Phantom Of The Opera', 2004.

35. "The passion I feel for you is more than you’re prepared for."

-'The Phantom Diaries'.

36. "I knew that Marie was right. Physically and mentally, I had scarred him for life."

-'Phantom'.

37. "The darkness he feared was in his own mind and there was no light in the universe powerful enough to take that darkness from him."

38. "Pitiful creature of darkness, what kind of life have you known? God give me courage to show you, you are not alone."

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