Syarafina

“but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering—which was by no means the case”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“I don’t wish to be a dowry.” She looked to him. “I do not wish to be commodified. I wish to be mine. To choose for myself.”
― Sarah MacLean, Brazen and the Beast

“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before;”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Mani pārdod seksam un nāvei, lai aizsargātu visus, kurus mīlu.” Kade leans into me more, raising his other hand between us to tuck another strand of hair behind my ear. I tilt my head, utterly confused by whatever language he’s speaking. He licks his lips. “Tajā skaitā jūs, vasaras raibumi.”
― Leigh Rivers, Insatiable