Mavis

“Miss Volker,” I said about as politely as I knew how, “do you think you will outlast the rest of these original people?” “I have to,” she said. “I made a promise to Eleanor Roosevelt to see them to their graves, and I can’t drop dead on the job—so let’s get going.”
― Jack Gantos, Dead End in Norvelt: (Newbery Medal Winner)

“There is a passion in you that scares me.”
― Kenneth Oppel, This Dark Endeavor