Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Red Room.
"I can assure you," said I, "that it will take a very tangible ghost to frighten me." And I stood up before the fire with my glass in my hand. (1)
"Eight-and-twenty years," said I, "I have lived, and never a ghost have I seen as yet." (3)
A monstrous shadow of him crouched upon the wall and mocked his action as he poured and drank. (11)
[…] I stood with the candle held aloft, surveying the scene of my vigil, the great red room of Lorraine Castle, in which the young duke had died. Or, rather, in which he had begun his dying,...