Molly Sargen

“...unless you were doing them a favor by killing them. Then, you'd let them down if you didn't, if you couldn't make yourself.”
― Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

“The man they'd come to see was up and standing at the window with his back to them, so that only Sophia saw his squared stance and his shoulders and the brown hair fastened back above the collar of his shirt. He wore no coat, just breeks and boots, and in the fine white shirt he stood there pale and like a ghost, the only thing of light in that dull room.

He spoke again, not looking round, his voice grown hoarser from the illness. 'Did you ye see her? Was she well?'

'She will be now,' the colnel gently said...

Sophia could not move from where she stood. Could not believe it.

Then he turned, a ghost no longer, but a breathing man. A living man, whose shadowed eyes grew brighter in the grip of hard emotion as he left the window and in two strides crossed to fold her in his arms...”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has its solution.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See