Madeleine

“What is more intricate?" he mused. "The designs of men, trying to reach gods, or that of gods, trying to reach men?" My hammer collided with a chunk of granite. "What is either to the intricacies of women, who reach both?”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“You are not as a tree, stoic and unyielding, but a butterfly. Delicate, feeling. Inconsequential.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“And I see it, the wave of elation that transforms his face, just as mine must have been when I saw our baby for the first time. There can be no greater intoxication, no purer feeling, than the moment when you meet your child after all the months of wondering and hoping and dreaming.”
― Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country

“We decided to be happy anyway. It was a decision. Happiness is almost always a decision.”
― Esther Hatch, A Proper Scandal