""One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me.
I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.""
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

"Your welcome means more to me, Ivy Alisha Tamwood, than a thousand souls. Watching Rachel work is a wonder of one catastrophe after another."
— Kim Harrison

" All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely pre-ambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasent life of it, in despite of the devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was - a woman."
— Washington Irving (The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow)

"Your just in time to get your head cut off! The horseman comes! But tonight he comes for you!"
— Mary Archer

"Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing"
— Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Chosen)

""Villainy Wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.""
— Ichabod Crane