Anna

“Arhys would have protected you from this choice, as a father would a beloved child. Arhys is wrong in this. I give you a woman's choice, here, at the last gasp. He looks to spare you pain this one night. I look to your nights for the next twenty years. There is neither right nor wrong in this, precisely. But the time to amend all choices runs out like Porifors's water.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls

“Once, she had been her parents' daughter. Then great, unlucky Ias's wife. Her children's mother. At the last, her mother's keeper. Well, I am none of these things now. Who am I, when I am not surrounded by the walls of my life?”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls

“Would you like an interview for the drama, too?"
"I can't act."
"Everyone can act. We spend our lives acting.”
― Tanith Lee, The Silver Metal Lover

“No man to lord, no child to hold.”
― Tanith Lee, The Blood of Roses