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“Do not stare at me unless you are willing to see me.' ...'Look at me,” he says. “Look at this body. My body. Or stop looking. Deny it, and deny me.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Dark and Deepest Red

“I think she wanted nothing from me," Hector added, "nothing at all but to let her love me.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Beautiful Ones

“But as it turns out, the criminals on the streets aren’t half as bad as the ones living in mansions.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“I wanted to stand up and shout at them all that my wife not only wasn’t divinely beautiful, she wasn’t even interestingly ugly; her conversation consisted entirely of insults, dire warnings, and tedious lectures I couldn’t even ignore; and they were all extraordinary idiots for imagining I could possibly have had the bad taste to fall in love with a dull, prosing, long-faced harridan.”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver