Jill

“Truth is, when you spend your whole life alone, it's incredibly appealing to move somewhere big enough to get lost in, where being alone looks like a choice.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“Elizabeth, however, had never been blind to the impropriety of her father's behavior as a husband. She had always seen it with pain; but respecting his abilities, and grateful for his affectionate treatment of herself, she endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook, and to banish from her thoughts that continue breach of conjugal obligation and decorum, which, in exposing his wife to the contempt of her own children, was so highly reprehensible.”
― Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice

“I am sure she thinks ... [that his rejection of royal company] is a sign of Oak being spoiled.
I think it's a sign he's been paying attention.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“I was having trouble with the scale of things. A man killed with a musket was just as dead as one killed with a mortar. It was just that the mortar killed impersonally, destroying dozens of men, while a musket was fired by one man who could see the eyes of the one he killed. That made it murder, it seemed to me, not war. How many men to make a war? Enough, perhaps, so they didn't really have to see each other.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander