Micheline Hofstadter

“Sara!" she cried, aghast. "Mamma Sara!" She was aghast because the attic was so bare and ugly and seemed so far away from all the world. Her short legs had seemed to have been mounting hundreds of stairs.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole;”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“But I am Niniane of Avalon, and I account to no man on this earth for what I do with what is mine -- yes, mine and not yours. I am not Roman, to let some man tell me what I may do with what the Goddess gave me”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

“Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things.”
― Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree