“They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.”

“Love and death are everything, Jenny. Danger is the best part of the game. I thought you knew that."
-Julian”

“And snatched sweet grapes from the hills.”
Et dulces rapuit de collibus uvas.

“So sweet love seemed that April morn,
When first we kissed beside the thorn,
So strangely sweet, it was not strange
We thought that love could never change.”

“What was the whole literature of supernatural horror but an essay to make death itself exciting?—wonder and strangeness to life’s very end.”

“There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.”

“She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying
her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place.
It's folly to shrink in fear, if this is dying;
for death looked lovely in her face.”

“Thus life by life and love by love
We passed through the cycles strange,
And breath by breath and death by death
We followed the chain of change.”

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.”

“Doubt not a woman's hardihood; no danger is too great for wedded love to face.”
Crede vigori femineo. Castum haud superat labor ullus amorem.