Eleanor

“Nay, time does not tarry ever, ’ he said; ‘but change and growth is not in all things and places alike. For the Elves the world moves, and it moves both very swift and very slow. Swift, because they themselves change little, and all else fleets by: it is a grief to them. Slow, because they do not count the running years, not for themselves. The passing seasons are but ripples ever repeated in the long long stream. Yet beneath the Sun all things must wear to an end at last.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Beyond that, memories have a way of changing on us. Souring or sweetening over time—like a brew we drink, then recreate later by taste, only getting the ingredients mostly right. You can’t taste a memory without tainting it with who you have become.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“They’re trying to be good. But they’re, you know, Alethi. Conquering folks is basically their primary cultural heritage.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Dawnshard

“I did not come this far to only come this far.”
― Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations