“Being around her now was nine parts bliss and one part torment. And he wanted it to last as long as possible.” 

― Molly Ringle, Persephone's Orchard

“That was an evil terror---- an ugly inmate to have found a nestling-place in Godfrey's kindly disposition; but no disposition is a security from evil wishes to a man whose happiness hangs on duplicity.” 

― George Eliot, Silas Marner