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“Unfortunately the wife he got was weak and a slut, something he would never allow himself to have.”

— R.L. Mathewson

“She could only hold on to her husband with both hands and promise herself that the best way to keep someone was to let…

— Lauren Willig

“She was always trying to be what her husband wished, and never able to repose on his delight in what she was.”

— George Eliot

“He remembered the gracefulness with which she moved in battle—like liquid flesh. There was no one quite like his wife, and he never felt…

— Nadia Scrieva

“Once, he had needed her. He’d leaned on her strength and followed her light. Now, he knew that he could live without her. It…

— Skye Warren

“Now it happened that this Candaules was in love with his own wife; and not only so, but thought her the fairest woman in…

— Herodotus

“Finally, when she was shaking so much that he staggered with the violence of her pleasure, he drove her back against the wall and…

— Susan Napier

“This would have been the perfect time to continue with his ravishment scheme. He could lay siege to her virginal clothing. Ruthlessly dismantle her…

— Tessa Dare

“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex…

— George Eliot

“Even hearing him say those words thrilled her. She wanted him to possess her. To desire her. To ravish her. She no longer had…

— Audra Claire

“Among themselves, they had figured out how to go about marriage so as to accomplish the least damage. The husbands lived two hours away...”

— Charles Frazier

“He wanted her. He wanted her completely. But his family was waiting for him at supper, and his ancestors were staring down at him…

— Julia Quinn