Paige

“Which means,” said Bod, “you’re asking the wrong question.” Silas raised an eyebrow. “How so?” “Well,” said Bod. “If I go outside in the world, the question isn’t ‘who will keep me safe from him?’” “No?” “No. It’s ‘who will keep him safe from me?”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close. And she held her sword, and she smiled like a knife.”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“this isn’t the land of appropriate—this is Hollywood, baby. Out here, a dark-skinned woman’s traditional hair color is honey blond. A hip white woman’s natural hair is gray-lavender.”
― Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?

“This is a woman who has not been tamed to be as others want; she has not been cut down to fit her circumstances.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Taming of the Queen