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"Her late mother-in-law had been cut from the same cloth as her sister Malva. Halla had tried to love her and then had tried to like her, and then had tried to be dutiful and compliant, and finally had settled for not being too obviously relieved when the woman had dropped dead."

"If you're thinking 'a pain in the ass' is too modern an expression, you're correct. Pito actually called her 'an itchy hemorrhoid,' but I worried that would come across as ugly and cruel, which wasn't how Pito intended it."

"He had both hands clamped around her back and she wanted to melt against him like—damn, like a thing that melts, who cares, this is not the time to worry about specific melting things—"

"The perfect gentle knight. She had a strong urge to kick him in the shins."