Josette

“Shirley: "Christopher, would you like to tell Olivia what "F.I.N.E" means?"

Christopher: "Fucked-up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional"
...

Olivia: "But what if you really do feel fine?"

Shirley: "Christopher, care to answer that?"

Christopher: "Um, there's no such feeling as fine.”
― Amy Reed, Clean

“War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

“Stories don't always have happy endings."

This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was actually invisible. It was that people had become used to not seeing him.

And if no one sees you, are you really there at all?"”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls