Alissa

“Could he be interested in her? How did people know? Perhaps if she had grown up like a normal woman, she would know when a man was interested in her. Instead, she grew up in a monastery where there were no such feelings, at least not openly expressed.”
― Morgan L. Busse, Heir of Hope

“So if you care to find me/
Look to the western sky/
As someone told me lately/
Everyone deserves the chance to fly!/
And if I'm flying solo/
At least I'm flying free/
Tell those who'd ground me/
Take a message back from me/
Tell them how I am defying gravity!/
I'm flying high defying gravity/
And soon I'll match them in renown./
And nobody in all of Oz/
No Wizard that there is or was/
Is ever gonna bring me down!/”
― Stephen Schwartz, Wicked: Easy Piano CD Play-Along Volume 26

“She gave a short laugh to throw him off track. "It so happens I am a trifle more sophisticated than that. I hardly go about mooning and cultivating romantic notions of heroic knights sweeping me away to unknown isles aboard stolen ships."
He smiled. "A knight rode a horse, my dear; he was not a sea captain.”
― Linda Lee Chaikin, Under Eastern Stars

“I need you, Bailey. Only you.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Longing