Somlar

“I observe, with extreme concern, the illusion you are encouraging - an illusion common to young and sensible minds. Your heart has received a severe shock; you believe you can never entirely recover it, and you will encourage this belief, till the habit of indulging sorrow will subdue the strength of your mind, and discolour your future views with melancholy and regret.”
― Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho

“These creatures have not the least cause of enmity to each other - they do not know, they never beheld each other. Perhaps they might, under other circumstances, wish each other well, as far as human malignity would suffer them; but from the moment they are hired for legalized massacre, hatred is their duty, and murder their delight.”
― Charles Robert Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer