Cieranne

“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange.
Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never could.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five