Victoria

“Except I think it feels more like an empty stomach than a broken heart. An aching hollowness that food can't cure. You know. You've felt it yourself, I bet. You hurt all the time, you're restless, you can't think straight, you sort of wish you were dead but what you really want is for everything to be the same as it was when you were still with her.. or him”
― Richard Laymon, Night in the Lonesome October

“She was the beautiful, lethal, insinuating spider he had waited for all his life.”
― Robert Goolrick

“He ought to have conceded that she was a flower not destined to open, a hothouse creation, no less beautiful, no less woth having, He should have admired her, praised her and, at the close of day, let her be.”
― Michel Faber

“She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale