The Raven Quotes

Capt. Charles Hamilton: If you know what's good for you, Poe, you stay away from my daughter.

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Capt. Charles Hamilton: Mr. Fields, I'm happy to indulge your request for the additional security. But I warn you, if I see this man [Poe]
Capt. Charles Hamilton: there tomorrow night, you will have to protect him from me!

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Edgar Allan Poe: It appears that my writing has become the inspiration to an actual killer.

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Edgar Allan Poe: Emily, I think we should reconsider our announcement.
Emily Hamilton: Why? Are you backing out?
Edgar Allan Poe: No, no, no. Never. If your father sees me there tomorrow, he may have me shot. And, there well may be a depraved killer on the guest list. It's a bit much for one night.
Emily Hamilton: I think it sounds thrilling.
Edgar Allan Poe: Does it? Why?
Emily Hamilton: [amused]How else should Edgar Allen Poe commit himself to eternal love other than under threat of death?

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Percy: You must sell a hell of a lot of papers these days, Henry. Two murders in one week.
Maddux: Circulation has indeed improved, despite unfortunate events.

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Edgar Allan Poe: [to Fields about Emily]Your men are right. I've killed her

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Ivan: [through the floorboards]Shut it, Emily... or I'll shut it for you.

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Detective Fields: [about the most recent murder]You must write it now. Every detail.

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Edgar Allan Poe: I feel as if I've gone from author to character in one of my many tales. I'm as trapped and bedeviled as any of the hapless bastards I ever created.
Detective Fields: I can appreciate that.
Edgar Allan Poe: Regardless of what you think of me, Fields... I am a master of my art and I will not fail. Ever.

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Emily Hamilton: Why are you doing this to me?... [crying]
Emily Hamilton: Let me out!

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Emily Hamilton: Please don't let me die in here.

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Edgar Allan Poe: [after the killer escapes]He was inches away. If I hadn't dropped my weapon.

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Edgar Allan Poe: I will kill him. No matter how this ends. I will kill this perversion of a man. For godspeed, even his prose is barbaric.

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Ivan: You came this far, Mr. Poe. Are you really gonna back out now? You know what happens next. You're the one who it, after all.

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Edgar Allan Poe: [after pulling up the floor and finding her]Emily, open your eyes.

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Emily Hamilton: [breathless]You did mean it?
Edgar Allan Poe: Mean what?
Emily Hamilton: When you said you would marry me.
Edgar Allan Poe: In this life and the next.

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Edgar Allan Poe: [gasping to the stranger]Tell Fields his name is Reynolds.

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Detective Fields: Do you have a cause of death?
Doc Clements: I'm sorry, I don't. I have a few ideas... but as you know, he was brought in in a very deranged state.
Detective Fields: I'm told he was ranting.
Doc Clements: Yes,. He kept going on and on about telling you that your last name was 'Reynolds'. It that helpful or gibberish?
Detective Fields: Maybe both.

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Edgar Allan Poe: Take this kiss upon the brow!/And, in parting from you now/ Thus much let me avow/You are not wrong, who deem/All that we see or seem/Is but a dream within a dream.

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