Rhiannon

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

“What did you say to the people who had given you life, when you were about to intentionally throw that gift away?”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Cubitum eamus?"
"What?"
"Nothing.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History