Jc Alper

“For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience.”
― Thomas More, Utopia

“No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.”
― Simone de Beauvoir , The Second Sex

“She told me to live. . . . I didn’t know how to tell Her that simply being alive was not enough to be called living.”
― Kiera Cass, The Siren: A deadly-voiced siren falls for a human boy in this star-crossed YA fantasy romance from the Selection series author

“Vera had also hated lipstick, Marzipan and Lutherans - excluding her husband, but not her late mother-in-law. Most of all she hated being governed by anyone or anything.”
― Victoria Dougherty, The Bone Church