Mary

“seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“You’ve mistaken the stars reflected on the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves

“Mutiny, it was plain, hung over us like a thunder-cloud.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island