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“A moment of peril is often also a moment of open-hearted kindness and affection. We are thrown off our guard by the general agitation of our feelings, and betray the intensity of those which, at more tranquil periods, our prudence at least conceals, if it cannot altogether suppress them.”
― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“...I still cannot tap on your walls and discover by the hollow or firm sounds which of your walls are merely decorative, and which ones hold everything up.”
― Philip J. Hilts, Memory's Ghost: The Nature Of Memory And The Strange Tale Of Mr. M

“A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. She stamped her little foot at me."
He pointed down to her toes as if she were a child yet.
Then he straightened his shoulders. "But I sent her back to the nursery, where she belonged, and told her to play with her dolls instead. As everyone knows, a female on a hunt is a distraction at best and bad luck at worse."

Which explained why Beatrice went into the woods with her hound alone, George thought. She looked now as though she had gone to some other place where she could not hear her father's words and thus could not be hurt by them. George wondered how often she was forced to go to that place.

Did King Helm not see how much she was like him? It seemed she was rejected for any sign of femininity yet also rejected for not showing enough femininity, How could she win?”
― Mette Ivie Harrison, The Princess and the Hound

“Why must we hide,
Behind walls built high?
N' blame our lives,
On him, her, I?”
― Kari L. Greenaway, He Had You at Belief

“Shoot, I thought Jesus was the only man who practiced what He preached, but Preston was a sermon without words. His character started slowly disintegrating the bricks pain had set up that worked to keep the fear in and the beauty out. As it did, my heart breathed deep and let out an affection with his name on it. And, I had no idea what to do with it.”
― Jackie Hill Perry, Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been

“She was afraid that if she really held on to him, she'd never let go. She had to be cautious from now on, treat him as she would a skittish cat; be careful to never move too fast or need too much.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“Marriage isn’t easy, Inara. It’s a messy, dirty, get-in-the-grime-and-dig kind of work. Sometimes it takes tearing down our carefully constructed walls in order to fall more in love.”
― Anna Augustine, By Blood & Blade

“The problem with building a wall as a defense against the world is when you're finished you're there with yourself with nowhere to hide.”
― Willa Reece, Wildwood Whispers