Mariva

“I would have thought he would be uncertain - a Cassiline, and celibate - but he came to it with wonder, taking all that I offered with a kind of reverent awe.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“That damned Cassiline would only turn around the instant we reached dry land, swim the Straits, and damn the lot of us. Bad enough he's vow-blinded; being besotten with you makes him a positive menace.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“You found us a way out. I'll find us a way home.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“There are forms and ceremonies to be gone through, not so much to satisfy oneself, as to stop the world's mouth, without much stoppage there would be little satisfaction in life.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South