Sara

“What do you want me to say? Yes, I’m ill. I’m an epileptic—that’s my lot. It isn’t easy and it isn’t very enjoyable but this is what I’ve got to live with. This is who I am, and I don’t think I’m insane. I don’t think I should be locked up and I don’t think I need to be cured of it for my life to be good. But no one seems to agree with me on that, and I was hoping you’d be different, but apparently you think just the same as my family and my doctors and everyone else.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“An adult human being is the most fearsome, terrifying, and powerful animal on the planet, and parenting is the act of creating an adult human being.”
― Brennan Lee Mulligan, Strong Female Protagonist: Book One

“And now I demand that you do what the ignorant might feel is the easier thing. You must refrain from dying in battle. Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards. The dead are not your masters.”
― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

“Do not undervalue what you are ultimately worth because you are at a momentary disadvantage.”
― Sherry Thomas, A Study in Scarlet Women