Sharon

“What usually frightens people? A monster. They say it’s small, hunchbacked, bristling like a Urcheon. It creeps around the castle at night, rattles chains. Moans and groans in the chambers.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“There, she thought, shaking off another rat and brushing away the turds. That wasn’t so bad.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside

“And after all, if I always assumed the worst and the worst didn’t come to pass, I might sometimes be relieved instead of constantly disappointed and angry.”
― Navessa Allen, Scandal

“I love Thornfield:—I love it, because I have lived in it a full and delightful life,—momentarily at least. I have not been trampled on. I have not been petrified. I have not been buried with inferior minds, and excluded from every glimpse of communion with what is bright and energetic and high. I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence, with what I delight in,—with an original, a vigorous, an expanded mind. I have known you, Mr. Rochester; and it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre