Annemarie

“All have been, or at least all have believed themselves to be, in danger from the pursuit of someone whom they wished to avoid; and all have been anxious for the attentions of someone whom they wished to please.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“But you have the nimble mind and quick fancy of youth, turning over from the thing that is half done to a further task beyond.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel

“She’d been prepared for death. Death was to be expected on the outside. A normal consequence of being tossed into the Death Shop. But no matter how she looked at it, menstruating was utterly barbaric.”
― Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky