Catherine

“For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his own thoughts. He had never known before the strength of the want in his heart for the frequent recognition of a nod, a look, a word; or the immense amount of relief that had been poured into it by drops through such small means.”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

“There was no Lo to behold.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“To live, for me, Jane, is to stand on a crater-crust which may crack and spue fire any day.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre