For when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr
It destroys the enfolding fictions which shield without concealing the earlier stages of intellectual truth.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Indeed nothing in George Eliot's fictions excels the style of these papers.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind