Alexandra

“Nick demonstrated twenty-three ways of communicating without words by fanning himself with a napkin. "This one means oops, your fly is open, sir, and if you lower the fan a little and look at someone over the top of it, it means wow, I'd like to marry you. But if you do it the other way around, it means ha ha, we are now at war with Spain.”
― Kerstin Gier, Saphirblau

“Fear is a hungry beast. The more you feed it, the more it grows.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“I am tired, sir.'
He looked at me for a minute.
'And a little depressed,' he said. What about? Tell me.'
'Nothing—nothing, sir. I am not depressed.'
'But I affirm that you are: so much depressed that a few more words would bring tears to your eyes—indeed, they are there now, shining and swimming; and a bead has slipped from the lash and fallen on to the flag. If I had time, and was not in mortal dread of some prating prig of a servent passing, I would know what all this means. Well, tonight I excuse you; but understand that so long as my visitors stay, I expect you to appear in the drawing room every evening; it is my wish; don't neglect it. Now go, and send Sophie for Adèle. Good-night, my—' He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Erye

“His presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre