Edna Pellen

“See, all I'm hearing is 'fancy words' and 'stalling'. So I think I'm going to get on with defeating you now, if that's alright. No offense against your storytelling skills or anything.”
― Melody Jackson, Dragons' Bane

“Some things are worth risking your life for.”
― Melody Jackson, The Dragon Within

“The past marks on your slate only live on in your memory, if you allow them to remain. They can't affect your future if they're no longer there.”
― Melody Jackson, The Dragon Within

“A time may come soon," said he, "when none will return. Then there will be need of valour without renown, for none shall remember the deeds that are done in the last defence of your homes. Yet the deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised."
She answered: "All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Eorl and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death."
"What do you fear, lady?" he asked.
"A cage," she said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King