From the original book by Gaston Leroux

I don't know myself when I sing. - Christine

You are treating me with outrageous contempt. - Erik

You dont answer! Well then I will answer for you. It was because there was someone in the room who was in your way, Christine, someone whom you did not wish to know that you could be interested in anyone else. - Raoul de Chagny

I sing only for you! Tonight I gave you my soul and I am dead. - Christine

If you appear tonight you must be prepared for a great misfortune at the moment when you open your mouth to sing - a misfortune worse than death. - Erik

He, the man who hides behind that hideous mask of death! - Raoul

Poor Erik.

I shall snatch off his mask, as I shall snatch off my own; and this time we shall look each other in the face, he and I, with no veil and no lies between us; and I shall know whom you love and who loves you! - Raoul

- Christine

Christine as you have no husband that ring can only have been given by one who hopes to make you his wife! Why deceive us further? Why torture me still more? That ring is a promise; and that promise has been accepted! - Raoul

Did you not say poor Erik? Well, Christine, there was a poor Raoul who overheard you - Raoul

Raoul, why do you condemn a man whom you have never seen, whom no-one knows and about whom you yourself know nothing? - Christine

Be happy, Raoul: I sang for you tonight.

- Christine

I will remove you from his power, Christine, I swear it. And you will not think of him anymore. - Raoul

No, no! he has shut himself up, he is working

Oh really! He is working is he? What is he working at?

Oh something terrible! But its all the better for us when he's working at that, he sees nothing; he does not eat, drink or breathe for days and nights at a time. He becomes a living dead man and has no time to amuse himself with trap-doors.

...and go on his knees before me, with his deaths head. And he will tell me that he loves me! And he will cry! Oh, those tears. I cannot see those tears flow again! - Christine

Oh, the first time I saw him!... I thought he was going to die! Because I had seen him!

It is difficult not to cause him pain and yet to escape from him for good - Christine

Why?

We risk his killing us He would commit murder for me

Does he love you so much?

There is nothing to be done with Erik except to run away! - Christine

But one can find out where he lives one can go to him now that we know that Erik is not a ghost, one can speak to him and even force him to answer! - Raoul

He fills me with horror and I do not hate him. . . How can I hate him Raoul? - Christine

No, of course not why, you love him! Your fear, your terror, those are all just love and love of the most exquisite kind, the kind which people do not admit even to themselves, said Raoul bitterly. The kind which gives you a thrill, when you think of it Picture it: a man who lives in a palace underground! - Raoul de Chagny

He accuses himself, he curses himself, he implores my forgiveness! He confesses his cheat. He loves me! He lays at my feet an immense and tragic love he has carried me off for love! But he respects me: he crawls, me moans, he weeps! - Christine

For he sang, and I listened and stayed!

- Christine

One has to get used to everything in life, even to eternity

I sometimes work at it for fourteen days and nights together, during which I live on music only, and then I rest for years at a time - Erik

- Erik

Oh, mad Christine, who wanted to see me! when my own father never saw me and when my mother, so as not to see me, presented me with my first mask! - Erik