Caroline Lim

“She's said she doesn't want to. Go ahead and ask her. Just because she has Alzheimer's doesn't mean she doesn't know what she does and doesn't want. At three in the morning, she wanted scrambled eggs and toast, and she didn't want to go back to bed. You're choosing to dismiss what she wants because she has Alzheimer's”
― Lisa Genova, Still Alice

“She gripped her new bronze dagger, realizing it was too small and too short to provide much offensive power. But that's why Annabeth liked daggers: they kept her focused. A child of Athena should never rely on a blade if she could use her wits instead. Intelligence won wars, not brute force.”
― Rick Riordan, The Staff of Serapis

“Sophie listened and felt sad. Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

“That wasn’t my future I destroyed,’ she assured herself. ‘I make my own future.”
― Rick Riordan, The Staff of Serapis