Samantha

“I would hit you on the head with a rock and drag you away from this. But it would only shatter the rock.”
― Jim Butcher, Captain's Fury

“Battles are fought in muddy fields, in burning towns, in treacherous forests, in unforgiving mountains, and on the blood-spattered stones of contested bridges, Tavi realized.

But battles are won within the minds and hearts of the soldiers fighting them. No force was defeated in battle until it believed that it was defeated. No force could be victorious unless it believed it could be victorious.

The First Aleran believed.

The Canim raiders weren't sure.”
― Jim Butcher, Captain's Fury

“I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.”
― Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

“This is a place built to store books, by people who wanted to preserve books, and used by people who want to read those books. I am not alone.”
― Genevieve Cogman, The Masked City