Fabienne

“Alas! Victor, when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“...and his body responding with that maddening slowness from which one suffers when chased by the phantoms of nightmare.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft

“Go back?" he though. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do!" So up he got, and trotted along [...]”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit