Melissa

“Someday," said the Boy-Who-Lived, "when the distant descendants of Homo sapiens are looking back over the history of the galaxy and wondering how it all went so wrong, they will conclude that the original mistake was when someone taught Hermione Granger how to read.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

“There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.”
― Wallace Stegner, All the Little Live Things

“Adam Wayne, the conqueror, with his face flung back and his mane like a lion's, stood with his great sword point upwards, the red raiment of his office flapping around him like the red wings of an archangel. And the King saw, he knew not how, something new and overwhelming. The great green trees and the great red robes swung together in the wind. The preposterous masquerade, born of his own mockery, towered over him and embraced the world. This was the normal, this was sanity, this was nature, and he himself, with his rationality, and his detachment and his black frock-coat, he was the exception and the accident - a blot of black upon a world of crimson and gold.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill

“Here was a healer who went to war, a warrior who would plead for peace, a homebody who again and again left his small comforts to aid others.”
― Wendy C. Fries, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson: The Day They Met: 50 New Ways the World's Most Legendary Partnership Might Have Begun