Libby

“She let out a silent laugh. "How did I really look?" But Ethan grew serious, thinking...remembering...deciding. "I thought you looked like forever.”
― Ally Carter, The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

“I know the world hasn’t given you a lot of reasons to believe this, but just so you know, if you were mine, I’d never make you park the car because my shoes are suede. If you were mine, I’d carry you through the storm.”
― Ally Carter, The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

“I washed the Divining robes this morning." The gargoyle led me down the nave. On the final pew, six silk robes waited. "It was an abundant chore. I am within myself with fatigue."

"Beside," I murmured, peeling off my clothes. " 'Beside myself with fatigue' is the proper expression."

The gargoyle's stone brow knit. "If I were beside myself, there would be two of me, and the washing would have taken half the time.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth