Anna

“I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.”
― Tanith Lee, The Silver Metal Lover

“Arhys would have protected you from this choice, as a father would a beloved child. Arhys is wrong in this. I give you a woman's choice, here, at the last gasp. He looks to spare you pain this one night. I look to your nights for the next twenty years. There is neither right nor wrong in this, precisely. But the time to amend all choices runs out like Porifors's water.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls

“Don't ever," he said, "be afraid of me."
But I was. He'd driven a silver nail through my heart.”
― Tanith Lee, The Silver Metal Lover

“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
― Terry Pratchett