Melaina

“Roark, floating like a piece of driftwood, held a power greater than that of the engine in the belly of the yacht. Wynand thought: Because that is the power from which the engine has come.”
― Ayn Rand

“She knew that neither his clothes nor the years stood between her and the living intactness of that memory.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“She wondered why her normal desire to say little, to hold things closed, broke down before him, why she felt compelled to simple frankness, such as she could offer no one else.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“She came back many days later. She saw him, unexpectedly, on a flat stretch of stone before
her, by the side of the path. She stopped short. She did not want to come too close. It was
strange to see him before her, without the defence and excuse of distance.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead