Maya

“A gentleman might have stopped then. She had climaxed, and she was still a virgin, and he was probably a beast for wanting to make love to her fully, but he simply couldn't...not.

She was his.

But not, he was coming to realize, quite as much as he was hers.”
― Julia Quinn, What Happens in London

“You still do not quite understand, do you?" she said softly. "I do not want you to change. I fell head over ears in love with you the first time I saw you just because you are who you are.”
― Mary Balogh, The Secret Mistress

“Be who you seem to be.”
― Maggie Osborne, Silver Lining

“The only thing you can neither plan nor control, my dearest love, the duke had once told her, is love itself. When you find it, you must yield to it. But only if it is the one and only true passion of your life. Never if it is anything less than that, or life will consume you.

But how am I to know? She had asked him.

You will know.”
― Mary Balogh, A Secret Affair