Berea

“When you can't have both freedom and safety, boy, which do you choose?" Elend was silent. "I make my own choice," he finally said. "And I leave the others to make their own as well.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Maybe that brought us together, but it didn't make us who we are. It didn't make you the girl who could get me to laugh when I had nothing. It sure as hell didn't make me the idiot who took that for granted. Whatever there is between us, we forged it. It belongs to us.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“I don't mind your calling me a clog, if only we were fastened together."

"But I do mind you calling me a donkey," he replied.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters