Karissa

“She lives on the edges of everything, at the sharp pointy corner of existence between normality and extraordinariness where she is neither one thing nor, truly, the other. She can do extraordinary things, but she doesn’t like doing them. But she can’t be normal either, she’s too broken, too other.”
― Lisa Jewell, Breaking the Dark

“An excellent point,” said Professor Dumbledore. “My own brother, Aberforth, was prosecuted for practicing inappropriate charms on a goat. It was all over the papers, but did Aberforth hide? No, he did not! He held his head high and went about his business as usual! Of course, I’m not entirely sure he can read, so that may not have been bravery.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Her well-rehearsed smile had got them through the last few weeks. Now it had to get her through the rest of their lives together.”
― John Marrs, The Marriage Act

“Wow!” said Dennis, as though nobody in their wildest dreams could hope for more than being thrown into a storm-tossed, fathoms-deep lake, and pushed out of it again by a giant sea monster.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire