Jillian

“All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

“Because I had already resolved that if you're afraid of love, your heart will break anyway, only in not half so nice a fashion as it does when you let somebody love you.”
― Ann Rinaldi, Time Enough for Drums

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The story is always better than your ability to write it.”
― Robin McKinley