by her grace
"Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'someone', like everybody else. But he was too ugly! And he had to hide his genius or use it to play tricks with, when, with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and in the end he had to content himself with a cellar. Surely we may pity the Opera ghost!"
from The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
I love the book. More than the play with all its mindblowing melodies. In the novel, Erik is much more pathetic and more fully fleshed-out in his emotion, brilliance and insanity. He is excruciatingly heartbreaking in his final chapter.
Would we love Erik if we really, really knew him?
from The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
I love the book. More than the play with all its mindblowing melodies. In the novel, Erik is much more pathetic and more fully fleshed-out in his emotion, brilliance and insanity. He is excruciatingly heartbreaking in his final chapter.
Would we love Erik if we really, really knew him?