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

“Find the people who treat you the way you're supposed to be treated, tell everyone else to go to hell, and don't look back.”
― Katie Alender, As Dead As It Gets

“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women