Samantha

“Didn’t someone say love is a shared delusion?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“She says it's too easy to call people evil instead of their choices and that lets people justify making evil choices. Because they convince themselves that it's okay because they're still good people overall inside their own heads. And yes, fine. But I think that after a certain number of evil choices, it's reasonable shorthand to decide that someone's an evil person who oughtn't have the chance to make any more choices. And the more power someone has, the less slack they ought to be given.”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education

“Mortals have always been fond of stories,” he supplied. “Of course.” Turning about, I hiked back toward my bags. “We don’t live long enough to remember who we are without them.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Star Mother

“The notion that fantasy is only for the immature rises from an obstinate misunderstanding of both maturity and the imagination.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Books of Earthsea