Sublime

I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough

‘She has obstinacy and pride enough to serve instead of love, now she has married him,’ said Will to himself.

Filippo, Duke of Milan, who slew his wife and painted her lips with a scarlet poison that her lover might suck death from the dead thing he fondled;

deeper down in the more secret chambers of his unsuspecting soul, the smiling Lucy, now as dead and ashy pale, was being bound a ransom for Isabel's salvation.

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.

“It had been her fortune to possess a finer mind than most of the persons among whom her lot was cast; to have a larger perception of surrounding facts and to care for knowledge that was tinged with the unfamiliar. It is true that among her contemporaries she passed for a young women of extraordinary profundity. She had a theory that one should be