Anne

“What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague of young men who were not worthy of her? And did not she come awake exactly at the right moment when the right prince kissed her? For my part, I cannot help wishing a good many girls would sleep till just the same fate overtook them. It would be happier for them, and more agreeable to their friends.”
― George MacDonald, The Wise Woman and Other Stories

“I saw thee ne'er before;
I see thee never more;
But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one,
Have made thee mine, till all my years are done.”
― George MacDonald, Phantastes

“It is by loving and not by being loved, that one can come nearest to the soul of another.”
― George McDonald

“If you're referring to the incident with the Dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien