Farah Farah

“And which devil do you prefer? Dante's?"

"No. Much too terrifying. Too medieval for my taste."

"Mephistopheles?"

"Not him, either. He's too pleased with himself. Too much a trickster, like a crooked lawyer ... Anyway, I never trust people who smile a lot."

"What about the one in The Karamazovs?"

"Petty. A civil servant with dirty nails. I suppose the devil I prefer is Milton's fallen angel.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Club Dumas

“The women looked pretty, except when you got near them, but they were very clumsy about the waist. They had all full white sleeves of some kind or other, and most of them had big belts with a lot of strips of something fluttering from them like the dresses in a ballet, but of course there were petticoats under them. The strangest figures we saw were the Slovaks, who were more barbarian than the rest, with their”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula