Angela

“Looking at the Jury and the turbulent audience, he might have thought that the usual order of things was reversed, and that the felons were trying the honest men. The lowest, cruelest, and worst populace of a city, never without its quantity of low, cruel, and bad, were the directing spirits of the scene: noisily commenting, applauding, disapproving, anticipating, and precipitating the result, without a check. Of the men, the greater part were armed in various ways; of the women, some wore knives, some daggers, some ate and drank as they looked on, many knitted. Among these last, was one, with a spare piece of knitting under her arm as she worked.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“Mr. Cruse, how high would you like to fly?"

A smile soared across my face.

"As high as I possibly can.”
― Kenneth Oppel, Starclimber

“What you did was very brave," Aunt Sticky Feet said, her words clipped but not unkind, "but men don't want women who are brave. They want women who make them feel like men."
"I don't care about that," Tiger Lily said quietly.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities