Rachel

“She needs air,” she said. “Her corset is probably tormenting her. Has anyone a knife?”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“I could only get on at all by taking “nature” into my confidence and my account, by treating my monstrous ordeal as a push in a direction unusual, of course, and unpleasant, but demanding after all, for a fair front, only another turn of the screw of ordinary human virtue.”
― Henry James, The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction

“She was blond, slim, and pouty, which would have given me three good reasons to dislike her even if she’d been a sweet lass who spent her free time tending sick hedgehogs.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Whispering Skull

“I may die; but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery. Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text