Annemarie

“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

“Kitty did in fact conceal her new views and feelings from her mother. She concealed them not because she did not respect or did not love her mother, but simply because she was her mother. She would have revealed them to anyone sooner than to her mother.”
― Leo Tolstoi, Anna Karenina

“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