Calico

“You don't think I can fight." Tessa said, drawing back and matching his silvery gaze with her own. "Because I'm a girl."
"I don't think you can fight because you're wearing a wedding dress", said Jem. "For what it's worth, I don't think Will could fight in that dress either."
"Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat'a. "But I would make a radiant bride.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

“And what good is it to me that you're here now? Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn: The Lost Version

“We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn