Tilly

“I am home, she thought, and stopped in wonder at the thought. I am home, I am home, she thought; now to climb.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“By you, I am forever undone.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“The boy and the girl had both known loss, and their grief did not leave them. Sometimes he would find her standing by a window, fingers playing in the beams of sunlight that streamed through the glass, or sitting on the front steps of the orphanage, staring at the stump of the oak next to the drive. Then he would go to her, draw her close, and lead her to the shores of Trivka's pond, where the insects buzzed and the grass grew high and sweet, where old wounds might be forgotten.
She saw sadness in the boy too. Though the woods still welcomed him, he was separate from them now, the bond born into his bones burned away in the same moment that he'd given up his life for her.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“I've never met anyone who didn't know who Shakespeare was. So he was a poet, sort of, but he also wrote the most frequently performed plays in the history of performed plays, and there have to be a certain number of syllables in every line, and at the ends of all of them — the plays, not the lines — the lovers either marry or they end up dead."
"Isn't that how all love stories end?" Loki asked.
"Well, I think history does have less extreme examples.”
― Mackenzi Lee, Loki: Where Mischief Lies