Violet

“No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”
― Elizabeth Peters

“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey