Mina

“A roll in the sheets with me at present would likely snap you in half," he added.

Lenora blinked. "are you so rough then, that I need to be more robust?" she asked with some acerbity.”
― Alice Coldbreath, The Unlovely Bride

“I will change, she vowed. While I will never have a really decent character, true love or even much by way of brains, I can still seek out some semblance of happiness.”
― Alice Coldbreath, The Unlovely Bride

“Sense memories of you persist and do not seem to abate as the day progresses. It’s disconcerting, Camilla. I don’t like it when my mind plays tricks on me. I would much rather simply have you here in the flesh, to feel and taste and smell with my actual senses. Instead my mind keeps conjuring this false perception of your presence. I think it means I miss you.”
― Delphine Dryden, The Theory of Attraction

“But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy