She is, Althea thought uneasily, what I pretend to be: a woman who does not let her sex deter her from living as she pleases.

~ Robin Hobb

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What good does it do you to love?

~ Trisha Leigh

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Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarreling in the greatest comfort and convenience. Oh, please, Althea, look at me. Do say yes.

~ Patrice Kindl

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I love you, Althea—you are so beautiful,” murmured the young man into my ear.Well, I was willing enough. I looked up at him from under my eyelashes. “I love you too,” I confessed. I averted my gaze and added privately, “You are so rich.”Unfortunately, I apparently said this aloud, if just barely, and his hearing was sharper than one would expect, given his other attributes.

~ Patrice Kindl

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