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Sixty Years Old - William Bankes
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Mrs. Ramsey x

[Mr. Ramsey stumbling along a passage stretched his arms out one dark morning, but, Mrs. Ramsay having died rather suddenly the night before, he stretched him arms out. They remained empty.]

Virginia Woolf  ·  To The Lighthouse

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Mrs Sinnott

Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel

William Trevor

"She was dying on the floor, she thought; she was dying while all of them were around her and none of them noticed..."

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Linda

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

"She tried to cry out–but no sound came; only the terror of her staring eyes revealed what she was suffering..."

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Bathilde Amédée

In Search of Lost Time: The Guermantes Way (À la recherche du temps perdu: Le Côté de Guermantes)

Marcel Proust

"My grandmother was dead..."

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Maud Lilian Baxter aka Queenie

The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

Sue Townsend

"Queenie died at 3 o’clock this morning..."

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Rachel Vinrace

The Voyage Out

Virginia Woolf

"... she had ceased to breathe. So much the better — this was death. It was nothing; it was to cease to breathe..."

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Aunt Lilian

A Woman of My Age

Nina Bawden

"‘I shouldn’t die,’ Aunt Lilian said."

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Lucy Westenra

Dracula

Bram Stoker

"Arthur! Oh, my love, I am so glad you have come! Kiss me!"

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Gertrude Morel

Sons and Lovers

D.H. Lawrence

"She lay with her cheek in her hand, her mouth fallen open, and the great, ghastly snores came and went..."

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Nannie Slagg

Gormenghast

Mervyn Peake

"It was hard to imagine that the broken thing had once been new..."

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Elisabeth Buddenbrook

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie)

Thomas Mann

"...she cried out in the most absolute obedience, with boundless, fearful, loving submission and surrender, “Here I am!”"

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Addie Bundren

As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

"She lies back and turns her head without so much as glancing at pa..."