And what if you try to kill me? Or worse: to kiss me?

I’d love to try to tame you… And I would simply adore it if you turn out untamable –

Honestly, I’d rather be anywhere else. Even home, where my dad begins almost every conversation with, “You should lose the black clothes and wear something with color.” Puh-lease. Like I want to look like every...

I never saw “being different” in and of itself as the point to “being Goth” — dressing different from most others, maybe, but the point to me was to get together with people who liked...

I was recently living more comfortably surrounded by secrets… Like dozens of luxurious satiny pillows, they were embracing me from all directions into safe lulling warmth, thus isolating me from the sharp dead-cold edges of...

You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?

Goth was sort of the melancholy cousin of punk that says: there’s a lot of evil in this world, there’s a lot of very mean spirited people and that makes me sad.

Now that Karen has been resurrected, I can travel beyond the black mirror. I can discover who I have lost with thefloating hearts and severed heads of my medicine. I must now whisper my other...

The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming…Dead silence.Literally dead.

Insane love.Loving insanity.Insanity and love…

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her what I never known how to...

Brian came in heavy at that moment on his guitar, the rapid, high-pitched squeal ranging back and forth as his fingers flew along the frets. As the intro’s tempo grew more rapid, Bekka heard Derek’s...

And I wasn’t playing a role – I was trying to be myself.But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed...

I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah… Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting...

If on thoughts of death we are fed,Thus, a coffin, became my bed.

Xander Stryker.” A thick, rich voice filled the hall. The speaker stopped at the altar, standing in a blue robe. His thick brown hair was slicked back and tied in a small ponytail in the...

Even I don’t know myself… In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real...

Gray.The overcast skies had the colour of deadened stones, and seemed closer than usually, as though they were phlegmatically observing my every movement with their apathetic emptily blue-less eyes; each tiny drop of hazy rain...

Goths do not hate the world. They just learned to accept the world that refuses to understand them.

Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season?

You know what, your imagination works faster than your mind.

The desperate piercing scream of horror echoed far above the sharpened tops of the trees wrapped in thin obsidian-transparent mist, and I startled jerkily, tripping again, and almost collapsed onto the cold moist ground.

She raised a sharp eyebrow at him. “Vlad, no offense, but look at you. If you’re not a vampire, you’re clearly the most anemic goth I’ve ever seen.”… “We believed you. Because that’s what friends...

I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies.

So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –

What happened to you?” she asked.”Ben was feeling artistic. Wanted to rearrange my face.

I don’t wear tattoos to freak her out; I wear them because I have to. It’s me.

Vladimir stood next to one of the beams on the back porch of our new home, leaning on his back. He reached in his pocket and grabbed a pack of cigarettes, Marlboro Reds which were...

The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a gathering of severe mute brothers from a forbidden ancient order worshiping forgotten gods...

I couldn’t loose somebody else like that, without even the chance to say good-bye. Not again. Not her.

Should have taken warning it’s justPeople mourningRunning, hiding, lostYou can’t find, find a place to go, so it’sRed skies at nightRed skies at night, whoa oh, oh oh oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh… red skies at night, red...

Strength and victory… What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear.

A good enemy can be better than the best of friend.

Do you have any idea who Erin was kissing?””Yeah, so we’ll brush out teeth really, really thoroughly afterwards,” I said, bumping her nose with mine gently. I wasn’t going to let anyone spoil this moment.

The only darkness you must fear is the the one that burns in your soul.” *Chiki101*

I was never able to accept anyone else’s support but my own –

Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –

At least I graduated,” he muttered, stabbing the key in and unlocking the door. I sucked in a breath. “I think dying was a little out of my control, thank you very much.””If you say...

She was beautiful, only hers was the dark beauty of night, just as Sherry’s was the bright beauty of daytime. Her hair was raven-black, ending in a sort of widow’s peak low on her forehead,...

Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.

Desires are what can most easily ruin us, lovely.

Nice. I like a little desperation ina guy. It builds character.

When people look at me, they automatically assume I’m dark and weird. Why can’t they see the truth? I’m just a girl, trying to find my place in the world.