" I only want her body if it comes with the rest of her. Her heart, her soul, her conscious will." Mr. Langford laughed without humor. "That's a nice bit of ego, isn't it? Wanting to possess someone entirely, inside and out. But that's what it is: that's what I want, not a quick tumble in the sheets, but a love for the ages., the sort minstrels sing about centuries on. Troy lost, Camelot fallen, diplomacy upended, and kingdoms ruined."

"You talk like that and I'm confiscating your hooch," said Tess tartly. "No one is worth telling the world to go to hell. That's not love; that's arson. "

― Beatriz Williams , The Glass Ocean