Eulalia Eisenbeisz

“It is not true, always, my dear,' said he, 'that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach; at least it’s not the only way.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

“I feel homesick but I don’t know where for.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

“Christ, I feel like a naughty schoolboy again,” said Alec as they walked into King’s Bench Walk. “We have just had a dressing-down by the headmaster. Strider could easily be a man handy with a cane.”
“That man Strider is a crook,” said Bing-Wallace. “His utterances are like the product of a performance of Joseph Pujol … Le Pétomane!”
“Who is Joseph Pujol?”
“He is a well-known French flatulist performer.”
“What?” Alec stopped dead,
“A fartist, dear boy, a performer of farts.” Bing-Wallace began to giggle, as did Alec.”
― Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap: Book 3 in the Charlotte's War Trilogy

“What the hell, if you are going to roll the dice with Lucifer, I say go the distance.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow