Alison

“Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?"

"Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

“She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane