Sebastian

“Dor wondered whether, if he should ever happen to be a ghost for eight hundred years, zombies might begin to look good to him. He doubted it.”
― Piers Anthony, Castle Roogna

“...all the woods and strands of Naples re-echoed with — 'O! giorno felíce! O! giorno felíce!' 'You see,' said Paulo, when they had departed, and he came to himself again, “you see how people get through their misfortunes, if they have but a heart to bear up against them, and do nothing that can lie on their conscience afterwards; and how suddenly one comes to be happy, just when one is beginning to think one never is to be happy again!”
― Ann Radcliffe, The Italian

“Now you must excuse your Raja for he must suffer to give audience to the prince of Punt, a pompous old fool, who believes that his frequent flatulencies are the echoes of the Gods applauding his non sequiturs.”
― Piers Anthony, The Willing Spirit

“Misty dreamers had not a chance with her; since, though she did not talk - talking would have been altogether repugnant to her silent nature.”
― E.T.A. Hoffmann, Der Sandmann