Isabelle

“Well, they swim into a hole where there's a lot of bananas. They're very ordinary-looking fish when they swim in. But once they get in, they behave like pigs. Why, I've known some bananafish to swim into a banana hole and eat as many as seventy-eight bananas." He edged the float and its passenger a foot closer to the horizon. "Naturally, after that they're so fat they can't get out of the hole again. Can't fit through the door.”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

“We've had this date with each other from the beginning.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“My father hated me chiefly because I was revolting but also because I was expensive.”
― Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant

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