Dorothy

“I never blame anyone," said Kemp. "It's quite out of fashion.”
― H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man

“Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“Who can be wise, amazed, temp'rate, and furious,
Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“What sort of noise does a balloon make, adrift? None. No, not quite. It noises itself, it soughs, like the wind billowing your curtains all white as breaths of foam. Or it makes a sound like the stars turning over in your sleep. Or it announces itself like moonrise and moonset. That last is best: like the moon sailing the universal deeps, so rides a balloon.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes