But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanubut curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.
Joseph Sheridan Le FanuNevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.
Joseph Sheridan Le FanuWhat a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same.
Joseph Sheridan Le FanuOld persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.
Joseph Sheridan Le FanuFor some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt myself a changed girl. A strange melancholy was stealing over me, a melancholy that I would not have interrupted. Dim thoughts of death began to open, and an idea that I was slowly sinking took gentle, and, somehow, not unwelcome possession of me. If it was sad, the tone of mind which this induced was also sweet. Whatever it might be, my soul acquiesced in it.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu