and I comforted you and cried—don’t be afraid of Mavriky Nikolaevitch; he has known all about you, everything, for ever so long; you can weep on his shoulder as long as you like, and he’ll stand there as long as you like! … Lift up your hat, take it off altogether for a minute, lift up your head, stand on tiptoe, I want to kiss you on the forehead as I kissed you for the last time when we parted.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'd have all your liberals locked up in custody!'
— from The Jew and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

[Meanwhile the address and the ten days' stay at Aberdeen had been] "playing havoc with the "Amphibia," [but on returning home, he went to work upon the latter, and writes on March 12:—] I did not care to answer your last letter until I had an instalment of "Amphibia" ready.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley

We recollect attending the case of a young lady labouring under a disease which produced extreme mental and physical suffering, who exhibited, a short period before her death, some singular phenomena.
— from The Anatomy of Suicide by Forbes Winslow