Persephone

“But it's a tradition, as if that alone is reason enough. Slavery and buying your wife were traditions, too.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“You don't give her up. You only go halves.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Now at the breakfast table, watching him eat my toast, "Don't take no for an answer" seemed like the attitude of a privileged guy who didn't care who got hurt, so long as his wife had the cute statues she wanted to display in her summer house.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars