Mary

“The more she made you sound like the worst kind of termagant, flouting society’s strictures and immune to its censure, the more I couldn’t wait to make your acquaintance”
― Sarah F. Noel, An Independent Woman

“It was. It was you," he said, softly advancing on her with slow, predatory grace. "You think I would forget your touch? You think I wouldn't know it in the darkness? I would know it in battle. I would walk through fire for it. I would know it on the road to hell. I would know it in hell, which is where I've been, aching for it, every day since you left.”
― Sarah MacLean, Daring and the Duke

“History's boring," grumbled Raven, reluctantly sitting down.
"Actually it's not," she countered. "It's all about the fascinating people--the politicians, the philosophers, the artists, the soldiers, the musicians--who shaped the world.”
― Andrea Penrose, Murder at Half Moon Gate

“That's because she wants great-grandchildren before she's too old to enjoy them." I shook my head. "She told me she wanted them before she was too dead to enjoy them." "Yes, well, that too”
― Sofie Ryan, The Whole Cat and Caboodle