Gaby Vega

“You're kissed by fire, remember? Lucky. It will take more than an arrow to kill you...'
She just smiled at that. 'D'you remember that cave? We should have stayed in that cave. I told you so.'
'We'll go back to that cave,' he said. "You're not going to die, Ygritte. You're not.'
'Oh.' Ygritte cupped his cheek with her hand. 'You know nothing, Jon Snow,' she sighed, dying.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“You're right,' Yossarian shouted back. 'You're right, you're right, you're right. The hot dog, the Brooklyn Dodgers. Mom's apple pie. That's what everyone's fighting for. But who's fighting for the decent folk? Who's fighting for more votes for the decent folk? There's no patriotism, that's what it is. And no matriotism either.'

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'A chaplain,' Dunbar said when the chaplain had visited him and gone. 'Did you see that? A chaplain.'
'Wasn't he sweet?' said Yossarian. 'Maybe they should give him three votes.'
'Who's they?' Dunbar demanded suspiciously.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch 22

“But hours later, near the approach of dawn, Faye sat straight up in bed and sucked in a huge breath. The sound woke me up, and I instinctively grabbed the trashcan I'd set near the bed, preparing to catch a volley of barf. Instead, she grabbed my arm with surprising strength. With her eyes still closed, she looked right into my face, and said,
"Tell the man in the hall...he needs to leave."
Petrified, I slipped away from her grasp and peeked out the door into the long hallway. There was no one.”
― Felix Blackwell, Stolen Tongues

“She was the sun and he was the earth waking from a thaw.”
― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong