Gracie

“He had wrought them up to a pitch of dangerous passion, and they were ripe for any violence to which he urged them. If he had failed with the windmill, at least he was now master of the wind.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

“At Christmas parties games were rough, no doubt,
And one shy little guest might be left out;
But let's be fair: while children of her age
Were cast as elves and fairies on the stage
That she'd helped paint for the school pantomime,
My gentle girl appeared as Mother Time,
A bent charwoman with a slop pail and broom,
And like a fool I sobbed in the men's room.”
― Vladimir Nabokov , Pale Fire

“I never cried for such a thing in my life: I hate going out in the carriage. I cry because I am miserable.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Don’t you understand what I’m talking about? He’s going to kill himself, don’t you know that?”
― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman