Lily

“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

“He’s gone down to the farm. Looking at pigs and things always soothes him if he’s been upset.”
― Agatha Christie, The Body in the Library

“Strange a quite extraordinary number of books to read, and said that he expected him to have read them by the end of the week.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“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