Matilda

“I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said.
"It would look stunning, My Lady," she called.
She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand