Ella

“It was all very well to say "Drink me," but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. "No, I'll look first," she said, "and see whether it's marked 'poison' or not"; for she had read several nice little stories about children who got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts, and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that, if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked "poison," it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“If you don't go with the tide of a dream - if you resist it - you wake up, you know.”
― E. Nesbit, The Story of the Amulet

“We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We can turn the beast into a prince, if only we love him enough.”
― Louise Doughty, Apple Tree Yard

“learning to not envy
someone else's blessings
is what grace looks like”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers