Madeline

“I suppose it's natural to some people to please without trying, and others to always say and do the wrong thing in the wrong place.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

“He loved me. He'd loved me as long as he he'd known me! I hadn't loved him as long perhaps, but now I loved him equally well, or better. I loved his laugh, his handwriting, his steady gaze, his honorableness, his freckles, his appreciation of my jokes, his hands, his determination that I should know the worst of him. And, most of all, shameful though it might be, I loved his love for me.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted

“I wanted a love so intense it could send me into a brain fever or cause the man who loved me to gnash his teeth and dash his head against a tree till he bled. To dig up my grave and be so blinded by love that he'd swear that even after seven years in the ground my face was still my face, uncorrupted.”
― Samantha Ellis, How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too Much