Tiegan

“Ashleigh, the librarian responsible for our adult patrons and programming, slips out from the back office, her gigantic quilted purse slung over one shoulder and her raven topknot jutting slightly to the right.
Despite being a five-foot-tall hourglass of a woman with Disney Princess eyes, Ashleigh is the embodiment of the scary-library stereotype. Her voice has the force of a blunt object, and she once told me she "doesn't mind confrontation" in a tone that made me wonder if maybe we were already in one. She's the person that our septuagenarian branch manager, Harvey, deploys whenever a difficult patron needs a firm hand.
My first shift working alongside her, a middle-aged guy with a wad of dip in his cheek walked up, stared at her boobs, and said, "I've always had a thing for exotic girls."
Without even looking up from her computer, Ashleigh replied, "That's inappropriate, and if you speak to me like that again, we'll have to ban you. Would it be helpful if I printed you some literature about sexual harassment?”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“I've never played baseball in my life - I'm not even sure how it works."
"A bunch of guys stand around in their jammies and chat amiably.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

“Wow, how do you lose somebody in a coat that ugly on a totally unobstructed clifftop?"
"I was distracted and talking to you."
"Oh, is this an accident, too?"
"I am going to accidentally throw you into the fucking canyon."
"See, now we're getting to the bottom of what you would consider an accident.”
― Travis Baldree, Brigands & Breadknives

“I started to create a new persona. Formless. A... version of me, but..." How did she explain it? "A version of me with no face. A version of me who could do terrible things. I walked away from it, Wit, but that capacity is still inside me."
"Shallan," he said, and she looked up, meeting his eyes. "If it weren't for that capacity, then what good would choices be? If we never had the power to do terrible things, the what heroism would it be to resist?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Wind and Truth