Rachel

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour; but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

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

“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 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