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 LerouxAre people so unhappy when they love?" "Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.
Gaston LerouxHe 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