Melissa

“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

“You're in the story with the rest of us now, and you must go with it, whether you will or no.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“A lot of people still maintain genre prejudice. I still meet matrons who tell me kindly that their children enjoyed my books but of course they never read them, and people who make sure I know they don’t read that space-ship stuff. No, no, they read Literature—realism. Like The Help, or Fifty Shades of Grey.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“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