Isabelle

“Our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.”
― Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

“The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.”
― James M. Cain, Mildred Pierce

“Margaret: Oh you weak people, you weak, beautiful people! - who give up. What you want is someone to [she turns out the rose-silk lamp] take hold of you. Gently, gently, with love! And I do love you, Brick, I do!

Brick [smiling with charming sadness]: Wouldn't it be funny if that was true?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“Everything is finished. I have nothing but you now. Remember that.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina