Amanda

“What did you bring me?” I countered. She grinned. “I have an apple that thinks it is a pear,” she said, holding it up. “And a bun that thinks it is a cat. And a lettuce that thinks it is a lettuce.” “It’s a clever lettuce then.” “Hardly,” she said with a delicate snort. “Why would anything clever think it was a lettuce?” “Even if it is a lettuce?” I asked. “Especially then,” she said. “Bad enough to be a lettuce. How awful to think you are a lettuce too.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“He was so British she could spread him on a crumpet.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox

“This world is big and beautiful.” She eases back enough to meet my stare, hers harder than ever. “But it’s also ugly and cruel and unjust. There’s only so much a heart can handle before it gives out. If you carry everything with you, all at once, you’ll break.”
― Sarah A. Parker, The Ballad of Falling Dragons

“Survival’s funny. Some wear it like a whisper, others like a scream. Mine’s a scorched skeleton of flame-forged rage that keeps me upright.”
― Sarah A. Parker, When the Moon Hatched