„She had always wanted a brother. And she had one now. Sebastian. It was like always wanting a puppy and being a hellhound instead.“

— Cassandra Clare
„She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.“
— Ayn Rand
„She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.“
— Virginia Woolf
„There. She had thanked Sebastian. She waited for a bolt of lightning to shoot out of the clouds and striker her dead. But nothing happened.“
— Cassandra Clare
„She was a grown up now, and she discovered that being a grown up was not quite what she had suspected it would be when she was a child. She had thought then that she would make a conscious decision one day to simply put her toys and games and little make-believes away. Now she discovered that was not what happened at all. Instead, she discovered, interest simply faded. It became less and less and less, until a dust of years drew over the bright pleasures of childhood, and they were forgotten.“
— Stephen King