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Ligeia
Describes his lost love, Ligeia, but struggles with his memory. The only thing that remains clear to him is her personality and her appearance. He speaks with awe about her irregular looks and her intelligence and is heartbroken by her death. Afterwards, he is a changed man – he buys a desolate abbey and decorates it in bizarre taste and takes a new wife whom he subsequently hates. Memories of Ligeia come back to him when Rowena is on her deathbed, but he also admits to taking a lot of opium. It is unclear if the final sequence of unnatural events, in which Ligeia appears to return from the dead, where the narrator’s drug-fueled delusion ends and where Ligeia’s paranormal spirit begins.
Narrator (Ligeia) Quotes in Poe's Stories
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They were, I must believe, far larger than the ordinary eyes of our own race. They were even fuller than the fullest of the gazelle eyes of the tribe of the valley of Nourjahad. Yet it was only at intervals – in moments of intense excitement – that this peculiarity became more than slightly noticeable in Ligeia.
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The night waned; and still, with a bosom full of bitter thoughts of the one only and supremely beloved, I remained gazing upon the body of Rowena.
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Narrator (Ligeia) Quotes in Poe's Stories
The Poe's Stories quotes below are all either spoken by Narrator (Ligeia) or refer to Narrator (Ligeia). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Ligeia
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They were, I must believe, far larger than the ordinary eyes of our own race. They were even fuller than the fullest of the gazelle eyes of the tribe of the valley of Nourjahad. Yet it was only at intervals – in moments of intense excitement – that this peculiarity became more than slightly noticeable in Ligeia.
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The night waned; and still, with a bosom full of bitter thoughts of the one only and supremely beloved, I remained gazing upon the body of Rowena.
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