Oliver

“Are you calling me weak?'

'No.' Mira squeezes my hand. 'Just... fragile.'

'That's not any better.' Dragons don't bond fragile women. They incinerate them.

'So she's small.' Mom scans me up and down, taking in the generous fit of the cram belted tunic and pants I selected this morning for my potential execution.

I snort. 'Are we just listing my faults now?'

'I never said it was a fault.' Mom turns to my sister. 'Mira, Violet deals with more pain before lunch than you do in an entire week. If any of my children is capable of surviving the Rider's Quadrant, it's her.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“A woman with tattoos!”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“As babies we are trapped in a strange, alien world, unable to see properly, constantly surprised at our bodies, alarmed by hunger and wind and bowel movements, overwhelmed by our feelings. We are quite literally under attack.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient