Madeline

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

“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

“struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen.”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

“We applaud patience but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.”
― N.T. Wright, After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters