Mélan

“You going back for your home or for your pet?” “They’re the same thing,”
― Sara Pennypacker, Pax

“I clung to books and words because, unlike people, they’d never abandon me.”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Fountains of Silence

“There was another reason. The main one.”
“Reason?” I said stupidly.
"Why I married you.”
"Which was?” I don’t know what I expected him to say, perhaps some further revelation of his family’s contorted affairs. What he did say was more of a shock, in its way.
"Because I wanted you.” He turned from the window to face me. “More than I ever wanted anything in my life,” he added softly.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“You can have anything,” she said, “once you admit you deserve it.”
― Meredith Russo, If I Was Your Girl