Isabelle

“Despite our tiffs, despite her nastiness, despite all the fuss and faces she made, and the vulgarity, and the danger, and the horrible hopelessness of it all, I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise - a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames - but still a paradise.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Where, where..." M'sieur Pierre mimicked him. "You know where. Off to do chop-chop.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.”
― Henry James

“But she had unbuckled us, it turned out, only to stall us, so that she and her sisters could die in peace”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides