Marah

“I'm not going to die," she said. "Not till I've seen it."
"Seen what?"
Her smile widened. "Everything.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“But now remember, my dear. Don’t try so hard. You’ll see. In life you
move toward the things you like and away from what you don’t,” Gretchen
said.

“It’s that easy?” I asked her. Her arm was so skinny and fragile, but I
could feel her weight like determination.

“Yes, it’s that easy,” she said. Then she laughed. “The hard part is to just
keep moving.”
― Nora Raleigh Baskin, In the Company of Crazies

“Yes, it would look like she was smuggling an ostrich with a tarp on it into a motel room, but this also looked like the type of establishment to not particularly judge for that sort of thing.”
― Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End

“There in the dark, on the front row, I could escape from a world I don't like. I could see that there are many characters on the screen with worse problems than mine, and they are fighting. I learn to empathize with them.”
― Ricky Lee, trip to Quiapo: Scriptwriting Manual