Asher

“In this way, the Dream House was a haunted house. You were the sudden, inadvertent occupant of a place where bad things had happened. And then it occurs to you one day, standing in the living room, that you are this house's ghost: you are the one wandering from room to room with no purpose, gaping at the moving boxes that are never unpacked, never certain what you're supposed to do. After all, you don't need to die to leave a mark of psychic pain. If anyone is living in the Dream House now, he or she might be seeing the echo of you.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“I'm afraid I was buried in thought.
Yes, and I'm sure it was a shallow grave.”
― Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer

“What a poisonous woman! Whew! Why didn’t somebody murder her!” “It may yet happen,” Poirot consoled him.”
― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

“Maybe I wasn’t the princess in her castle; maybe I was a madwoman locked in her tower.”
― Mariana Enríquez, Things We Lost in the Fire