“If you want me, you'll have to earn me. And, mister, I don't come cheap.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Source: Fancy Pants

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American writer 1948

Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 207

“I want you to admit just once what you feel
for me. I want to know if you'll miss me even
a little. If you'll remember me. If you're sorry
for anything.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Sugar Daddy

“You want me to go into a sewer, Mister Sharpe?' Sarah asked in a small voice.
'No, miss, I don't', Sharpe said. 'I want you to be in green fields and happy, with enough money to last you the rest of your life. But to get you there I have to go through a sewer.”

Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer

Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Escape (2003)

“I don't want to fall in love with you,' she said, pushing away.
'why not?'
'because you'll just end up using it against me.”

Francine Rivers (1947) American writer

Source: Redeeming Love

“I'll think about you everyday. Part of me is scared that there'll come a time when you don't feel the same way, that you'll somehow forget about what we shared, so this is what I want to do forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“I could not imagine a life that way…I wanted to be like everybody else. You marry a man who supports you – it never occurred to me I'd have to earn a living, and nor did I study to earn a living.”

Edith Windsor (1929–2017) American LGBT rights activist and a technology manager at IBM

On coming to the realization that she was a lesbian (as quoted in “Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer: 'A love affair that just kept on and on and on'” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/26/edith-windsor-thea-spyer-doma) (The Guardian; 2013 Jun 26)