Amalia

“Or had Howl slithered out so hard that he had come out right behind himself and turned out what most people would call honest?”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

“The Greeks, if the truth be told, were far too wise to have a consistent eschatology that presumed infallible knowledge of the afterlife. They had noted that no one ever returned from death and took the sane and sensible view that those who claimed to know what happened to a person after they died were either fools or liars.”
― Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures

“You have to move back home, Andy," Hilo said quietly. "I've missed you."
Anden had been waiting to hear those words come out of his cousin's mouth for years. Now, however, he felt no great relief or happiness - only the sort of heaviness that comes from wanting something for so long that the final achievement of it is a loss - because the waiting is over and the waiting has become too much a part of oneself to let go of easily.”
― Fonda Lee, Jade War

“Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice