Madara

“Come down to the tavern," he said after dark had fallen.
"No, thank you," I said, glancing up from the dryadology journal I was jotting notes from - I was working on the bibliography for my encyclopedia. "I'd like an early night."
"You don't have to stay long. You'd rather sit here with your nose in a book?"
"Vastly," I said, and he shook his head at me, not in disgust but utter bemusement.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always. I only mention this to bring to your mind that at any rate I would wish to do you no harm: beyond that I put it aside. I have lost in the race for money and good things, and I am not such a fool as to pretend to 'ee now I am poor, and you have got altogether above me. But Bathsheba, dear mistress, this I beg you to consider -- that, both to keep yourself well honoured among the workfolk, and in common generosity to an honourable man who loves you as well as I, you should be more discreet in your bearing towards this soldier.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“You’ll never be able to find yourself if you’re lost in someone else.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd