" You’re a force of nature, Your Grace,” she said. “But so am I. So am I.” She hadn’t said that she was charming…and, in point of fact, she wasn’t. Not in the usual sense. But there was something utterly compelling about her. He had no idea who she was any longer. He’d thought at first that she was a high-spirited, clever woman. He’d wondered next if she were a wallflower. But at the moment, she seemed beyond any category, larger and far more complex than anyone he’d encountered thus far. “If you want me to back down,” he said softly, “you shouldn’t be so interesting. "
― Courtney Milan , The Duchess War (Brothers Sinister, #1)