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 Lerouxwhy do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?
Gaston LerouxTonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.
Gaston LerouxErik: 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