„She’d become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do.And she’d taken to it well. She’d sworn that if she did indeed ever findherself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she’d beat herself to death with her own umbrella.“

— Terry Pratchett

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„Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely?“
— Virginia Woolf
„What she loved was this, here, now, in front of her; the fat lady in the cab. Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely; all this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely? but that somehow in the streets of London, on the ebb and flow of things, here there, she survived. Peter survived, lived in each other, she being part, she was positive, of the trees at home; of the house there, ugly, rambling all to bits and pieces as it was; part of people she had never met; being laid out like a mist between the people she knew best, who lifted her on their branches as she had seen the trees lift the mist, but it spread ever so far, her life, herself.“
— Virginia Woolf
„You wonder about her crime. She was condemnedto death for stealing clothes from her employer, fromthe wife of her employer. She wished to make herselfmore beautiful. This desire in servants was not legal.“
— Margaret Atwood
„She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.“
— Hans Christian Andersen
„[On being told of Calvin Coolidge's death] How do they know? (Coolidge was well-known for being a man of very few words.)“
— Dorothy Parker
„Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater.“
— Hans Christian Andersen