Ophelia

“We have danced, we have dined, we have drunk our fill. We have bid a tender and triumphant farewell to the Olden Age, and now we must step boldly into the new. May it be a good and happy one. May it bring unexpected adventures.”
― Jessica Townsend, Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow

“If God were good, He would wish to make His creatures perfectly happy, and if God were almighty He would be able to do what He wished. But the creatures are not happy. Therefore God lacks either goodness, or power, or both.’ This is the problem of pain, in its simplest form.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“Here they resisted to the last, with their swords if they had them, and if not, with their hands and teeth”
― Herodotus, Herodotus Histories Vol 1

“Knowledge always has the potential to be dangerous. It is a more powerful weapon than any sword or spell.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns