Sylvia

“Were knowledge all, what were our need
To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?”
― Christopher Brennan

“But see you, we should travel by night. Dark times for dark business, as they says. No sun to bother Valeriana or you, Kaylana's surely no' disadvantaged, and I know I work better in darkness. Anybody looking for us will have a harder time of it. Besides, marching in daylight is for the heroes. If we're going to do this, we may as well go all out.”
― Eve Forward, Villains by Necessity

“because he's Will”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass

“Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours