Death from the Sandman series by Neil Gaiman. In book 8 “Worlds’ End” near the end of the story, there is this perfect description of Death from the perspective of someone who meets her for the first time.
“The one at the end… I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they’ll still love you, because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. And then she stopped walking. Under the moon, she stopped and she looked at us. She looked at me. Maybe she was trying to tell me something; I don’t know. She probably didn’t even know I was there. But I’ll always lover her. All my life.”
A part of me wants to meet her and a part of me wishes someone felt that way about me.
