Beatrice

“Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien On Fairy-stories

“How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his forever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“As sweet as it feels, I can't lie here forever curled up in a big ball of fuck-the-world.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

“It doesn’t matter if you’re a Never, Ever, or whatever. In the end, the fairest of them all wins.”
― Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil