Mina

“You know what I think? Fate! That's what it is fate! There's a thing that comes after a fellow:got a name,but I forgot what it is. Creeps up behind him, and puts him in the basket when he ain't expecting it.”
― Georgette Heyer, Friday's Child

“Say it, woman."
"It. Woman."
"God, you're a pain.”
― Kristan Higgins, My One and Only

“Sense memories of you persist and do not seem to abate as the day progresses. It’s disconcerting, Camilla. I don’t like it when my mind plays tricks on me. I would much rather simply have you here in the flesh, to feel and taste and smell with my actual senses. Instead my mind keeps conjuring this false perception of your presence. I think it means I miss you.”
― Delphine Dryden, The Theory of Attraction

“A roll in the sheets with me at present would likely snap you in half," he added.

Lenora blinked. "are you so rough then, that I need to be more robust?" she asked with some acerbity.”
― Alice Coldbreath, The Unlovely Bride