Elsa

“Okay, okay!" I said. I put away the sword and started speaking as calmly as I could so the hippocampi and the cow serpent would stop panicking. I didn't know if it was possible to get stampeded underwater, but I didn't really want to find out. "It's cool. No sword. See? No sword. Calm thoughts. Sea grass. Mama cows. Vegetarianism.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and The Olympians - The Lightning Thief

“(Tell me you know that). He needed her to say it. [...] He needed to know that she believed he could do this, [...] He needed to know she believed in him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Something slid behind the queen’s gaze, something cold and dark. “I’m glad
she’s dead. And I’m glad she suffered. I celebrate her death.”
Her words chilled Lucia. “Death is not something to celebrate.”
― Morgan Rhodes, Falling Kingdoms

“But all he could think of was Inej. She had to live. She had to have made it out of the Ice Court. And if she hadn't, then he had to live to rescue her.
The ache in his lungs was unbearable. He needed to tell her... what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows