Samantha

“Standing there on display was painful enough.
Now came the truly unfortunate task of socializing.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“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

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“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