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“Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,” he said, “then I would say this lady can not exist - for…

— Isaac Asimov

“It was easy, terribly easy, to become with time a middle-aged spinster with a sharp tongue. She would have to guard against this.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“By gad—do you mean to say I am as important a possession as your cattle?” She pressed her hand to her heart. “Oh, Dain,…

— Loretta Chase

“When he rescued me, he was young and strong and full of pride and beauty. I loved him at once. I would have changed…

— Philip Pullman

“The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its…

— Jane Austen

“I still didn’t know quite what the witches were capable of. The threshold could be booby-trapped or enchanted. I could be walking into a…

— Kevin Hearne

“I also heard that Lord Maxwell keeps a goat in his bedchamber, but you don't see me sending someone to milk it. One mustn't…

— Sabrina Jeffries

“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Only a fool conquers when he might instead seduce.”

— Karen Marie Moning

“The stray thought occurred to him that if it weren’t for women, in all their cloaks of unfathomed mysteries, men would lead very boring…

— Eliza Maxwell

“She stayed beside me until I slept, waveringly, brilliantly, hooded in diaphanous scarlet, and occasionally she left an imperative written in lipstick on my…

— Angela Carter

“And she was angry because she knew she was capable of many things she couldn't even define to herself, so they seemed like bad…

— A.S. Byatt