Devyani

“Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow agate, some tender philter of death. But in our middle-class nosy era it would not have come off the way it used to in the brocaded palaces of the past. Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Years of secret suffering had taught me superhuman self-control.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita