Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead.

The business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married.

I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.

Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.

We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire

I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both.

All I ask is that my final months be happy ones, and that I be permitted a husband who will see to my proper Christian beheading and burial.