Lilith

“Inside every sadist is a masochist, cringing to taste his own medicine.”
― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

“The master. The monster. The beautiful sadist. That was the secret she never told anyone, not even herself, that she loved him more for his cruelties than his mercies.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Priest

“Thus masochism and sadism appear as the fundamental forms of psychosexual perversion, which may make their appearance at any point in the domain of sexual aberration.”
― Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study

“The outer world is a reflection of the inner world. Other people’s perception of you is a reflection of them; your response to them is an awareness of you.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart