„Well, she’s not responding to my advances,” he observed more brightly than he felt, “so she must be dead.””Or she’s a woman of good taste and sense.“

— Cassandra Clare

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„She looked at him helplessly. After all, it was no use. There was this money-business standing in the way - these meaningless scruples which she had never understood but which she had accepted merely because they were his. She felt all the impotence, the resentment of a woman who sees an abstract idea triumphing over common sense.“
— George Orwell