Alanna

“The women of this country learned long ago, those without swords can still die upon them.”
― Eowyn The Two Towers

“But please, please - won't you - can't you give me something that will cure Mother?'

Up till then he had been looking at the Lion's great feet and the huge claws on them; now, in his despair, he looked up at its face. What he saw surprised him as much as anything in his whole life. For the tawny face was bent down near his own and (wonder of wonders) great shining tears stood in the Lion's eyes. They were such big, bright tears compared with Digory's own that for a moment he felt as if the Lion must really be sorrier about his Mother than he was himself.

'My son, my son,' said Aslan. 'I know. Grief is great.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.”
― General Iroh

“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”
― G.K. Chesterton