Alex Simeon

“While I love romance, I’ve never believed in the concept of soul mates, which has always seemed a little like men’s rights activism: not a real thing. Love isn’t immediate or automatic; it takes effort and time and patience.
The truth of it was that I’d probably never have the kind of luck with love the women who live in fictional seaside towns do. But sometimes I get this strange feeling, an ache not for something I miss, but for something I’ve never known.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow

“Marie Antoinette insisted on having likenesses of the heads of her favorite dogs carved on the armrests of her chairs.”
― Kathryn Lasky, Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769

“Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with—often with cruel and deceitful intentions—in an unreal world.”
― Kathryn Lasky, Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769

“At the end of the day, whether one returns to the past or travels to the future, the present doesn't change.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold