Alien-romance Quote by Eve Langlais

“He specialized in a particular kind of friendship with that eight-limbed, inscrutable, treacherous creature, the happily married coupe, adapting himself closely and lightly to…

— Bowen Elizabeth

“It was better to die, like Eugénie and Digby, in the prime of life with all one's faculties about one. But he wasn't like…

— Virginia Woolf

“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

“It seemed to me that, were I a gentleman like him, I would take to my bosom only such a wife as I could…

— Charlotte Brontë

“The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs man and…

— Heraclitus

“I thought you were the docile one," he murmured. "Yes, my lord," she said meekly. "Compared to my sister, my lord." "And you're the…

— Anne Stuart

“So, to put it perfectly frankly, I was horny. I was horny and Paine was attractive and charming and he had this tiny little…

— Jessica Gadziala

“Of course, Storm-Lord! But why would a god marry a poor farm girl?" asked one of the bound novices, his voice thin and chirping…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“His staff had shaken hands with her as though a woman was merely another kind of man. Fools! The seeds of Eve were in…

— Mervyn Peake

“And she began the oft-told tale of a lady of imperial descent who could find no husband in the narrow circle where her pride…

— E.M. Forster

“No one had asked her to marry him, nor was there someone she wished to wed. Not that she did not enjoy the company…

— Janet Wallach

“...she thought with pity of all the men and women who were not light-hearted when they loved, who were cold, who were reluctant, who…

— Daphne du Maurier