"Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die—die, sweetly die—into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn, will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit."
—Carmilla, chapter IV
"You are mine, you shall be mine, and you and I are one for ever."
—Carmilla, chapter IV
"Creator! Nature!" said the young lady in answer to my gentle father. "And this disease that invades the country is natural. Nature. All things proceed from Nature—don't they? All things in the heaven, in the earth, and under the earth, act and live as Nature ordains? I think so."
—Carmilla, chapter IV
"But to die as lovers may—to die together, so that they may live together."
—Carmilla, chapter IV
"I never been in love with no one, and I never shall, unless it should be with you."
—Carmilla, chapter V
"Darling, darling, I live in you; and you would die for me, I love you so."
—Carmilla, chapter V
"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."
—Carmilla, chapter VI
