The Raven Quotes

Drake: You bloody *****!
Drake: This isn't over Roderick! No matter what it takes, you're gonna pay for this!

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Dr. Craven: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, / Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. / While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, / As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door./ "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door. / Only this and nothing more."

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Dr. Richard Vollin: Your monstrous ugliness breeds monstrous hatred. Good! I can use your hate.

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The Narrator: Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December. And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor...

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Maddux: I believe that God gave him a spark of genius and quenched it in misery. But as far as something like this... The only thing he's ever killed is a bottle of brandy.

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Edgar Allan Poe: Her innocence was the first part of her soul to die.

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Edgar Allan Poe: What's going on?
Detective Fields: I'm Detective Fields. Please, sit down, Mr. Poe.
Edgar Allan Poe: Yes. The infamous Detective Fields. Am I under arrest?
Detective Fields: No... not just yet.
Edgar Allan Poe: Then I'd rather stand! It makes it easier to leave!

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Ivan: The idea of drinking something that will kill you, but having time to carry on a conversation is, as they say, fraught with dramatic possibilities.

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[first title card]Title Card: On October 7, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe was found, near death, on a park bench in Baltimore, Maryland. The last days of his life remain a mystery.

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Edgar Allan Poe: You're mad.
Ivan: Really, Mr. Poe? You're one to talk.

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Edgar Allan Poe: I often thought I could hear the sound of darkness as it stole across the horizon, rushing towards me. But here I was overwhelmed by a sorrow so poignant. Once she finally died I felt in all candour a great release, but it was soon supplanted by the return of that dark and morbid melancholy that has followed me like a black dog all my life...

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Ivan: That's life, isn't it? So much less satisfying than fiction.

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Emily Hamilton: And neither the angels in heaven above/ Nor the demons down under the sea/ Can ever dissever my soul from the soul/ Of the beautiful Annabelle Lee.

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[first lines]Breathless Tenement Man: It's the fourth floor.

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[last lines]Detective Fields: Hello, Ivan.

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Edgar Allan Poe: You are referring to one of my stories. A work of fiction!

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Detective Fields: [viewing the scene]This crime is familiar to me.

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Edgar Allan Poe: [after he hops into the carriage]I've come to back to town for your daughter, Charles.
Capt. Charles Hamilton: Over my dead body!
Edgar Allan Poe: Is that an option?
Emily Hamilton: [feigning disgust]Oh, please. I find you revolting as some of your stupid stories.
Edgar Allan Poe: Some, but not all.

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Ivan: [concerned about the mud]Mr. Poe, your clothes!
Edgar Allan Poe: Just beating the mudslingers to it!

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Emily Hamilton: [to Poe about the secret note]You think you're clever, don't you?

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Emily Hamilton: So, I had to hear about your stunt all afternoon.
Edgar Allan Poe: Just wanted to see if I could get that little vein on the side of his neck to finally explode.

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Edgar Allan Poe: Emily, you are my greatest and only inspiration.

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Edgar Allan Poe: Who's next?

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Detective Fields: Why would hair be attracted to a magnet?

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Edgar Allan Poe: [in relation to the murder]You're talking about one of my stories? A work of fiction.

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Edgar Allan Poe: [to Fields about the murders]Do you actually think I murdered these people?

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Maddux: [about Poe]The only thing he's ever killed is a bottle of brandy.

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Edgar Allan Poe: [finding a replica of the Pit and the Pendulum with Griswold dead]I really hadn't imagine the counter weight to be so large.
Detective Fields: We have reason to believe you know the victim.

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Detective Fields: I believe the killer is taunting us. He wants us to know he will strike again.

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Capt. Charles Hamilton: [in reference to the stories]Who was Prospero?
Detective Fields: He was the host of the ball... and the first to die.

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