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

“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

“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

“Gradually the magic of the island settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. Each day had a tranquillity, a timelessness, about it, so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us, glossy and colourful as a child’s transfer and with the same tinge of unreality.”
― Gerald Durrell, The Corfu Trilogy