Isaac H

“Before you came along I wasn't sure if I could love, either," she said, and tried not to sound as resentful as she felt. Then she softened those words by adding, "I had always been fine alone. And I still am. But I'm better when you're here.”
― Genevieve Gornichec, The Witch's Heart

“I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

“I would rather have been loved”
― Genevieve Gornichec, The Weaver and the Witch Queen

“I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott