Literally Jasmine

“You examine me, Miss Eyre", said he. "Do you think me handsome?"
I should have deliberated, have replied to this question by something conventionally vague and polite; but the answer somehow slipped from my tongue before I was aware: "No, sir.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Pretend I am as capable as a man? Please, sir, do not value me so little!”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“Once we use the word spiritual, we don’t have to explain anymore, because it belongs to the Church then, and no one can question it.”
― Philip Pullman, La Belle Sauvage

“You can overcome the things that are done to you, but you cannot escape the things that you have done. Here”
― Megan K. Stack, Every Man in This Village is a Liar: An Education in War