Lily

“To one thing I have made up my mind. If we find out that Mina must be a vampire in the end, then she shall not go into that unknown and terrible land alone. I suppose it is thus that in old times one vampire meant many. Just as their hideous bodies could only rest in sacred earth, so the holiest love was the recruiting sergeant for their ghastly ranks.”
― Bram Stroker, Dracula

“The airport reminded Leamas of the war: machines, half hidden in the fog, waiting patiently for their masters; the resonant voices and their echoes, the sudden shout and the incongruous clip of a girl’s heels on a stone floor; the roar of an engine that might have been at your elbow.”
― John le Carré, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

“A round dinner-table,’ said he, with some heat, ‘is the most abominable article of furniture that ever was invented. I hope that Arabin has more taste than to allow such a thing in his house.”
― Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers

“Let us examine the case of rings. Rings have long been considered peculiarly suitable for this sort of magic by virtue of their small size.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell