Lucy

“If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room.” “Frequently.” “How often?” “Well, some hundreds of times.” “Then how many are there?” “How many? I don’t know.” “Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes ebook: All 56 Stories and 4 Novels

“For him, politeness was a surgical mask, something he slipped on before he took out his scalpel.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Word is Murder

“If you look into somebody's soul by accident, you feel a bit embarrassed about cashing in.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side