Megan

“Had I done it sooner, perhaps he might have lived. He was a man of courage and good heart, a proud man. Now he is dead. I saved the signal to use in a worthy cause, and when I found one it was wasted.”

“Wasted?” answered Fflewddur. “I think not. Since you did your best and didn’t begrudge using it, I shouldn’t call it wasted at all.”
― Lloyd Alexander, Taran Wanderer

“How could I explain that it was not all playacting? That I felt more of the male spirit within me than the female - a fierceness that whittled me down to a sharpened spear of ambition. And as a boy, I was applauded, not punished, for such raw energy. It was not beaten out of me for my own good, or worn away by women's chores.”
― Alison Goodman, Eon: Dragoneye Reborn

“Kindness is an act of bravery, I think, just as hatred is an act of fear.”
― William Ritter, Ghostly Echoes

“Even a leaf in the wind settles sometimes.”
― Alison Goodman, Eon: Dragoneye Reborn