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"What troubles me so dreadfully is the question, What does the spectre mean? What is its warning against?...What is the danger? Where is the danger? There is danger overhanging, somewhere on the Line."
"The first man had his three wishes. . .I don't know what the first two were, but the third was for death."
"You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man."
"I said, 'Are all these animals dangerous?'
He smiled. 'Oh, no! Man is the worst.'"
"The creature was still alive, incredibly ... Save me, and I shall save you, it said unto me..."
"...with that look Basil understood many things beyond human comprehension that both terrified and delighted him."
"It was often easy to forget the Twins' wickedness between incidents, for they appeared frequently to be mere children at play..."
"Though privately discouraged by her salutary condition, he was cheered by all manner of odd portents that he observed as her lying-in drew ever closer."
"He was apparently seventy years old, actually about fifty. Something besides years had had a hand in his aging."
"Listen -- what do you mean, he made you? What kind of talk is that?"
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