Alicia

“Our clever bargains for shinier hair or prettier feet are just another line item on our wifely résumés, proving that we are good girls. Rose Bargains, they’re called. Bargains to make us beautiful, fragile, sweet—perfect English roses.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Rose Bargain

“He was a romantic in the way only men can afford to be. In that moment, I hated him for it.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Rose Bargain

“My heart isn't a traitor. It doesn't love him, but it remembers loving him, and really, what's the difference in the middle of the night? They say time heals all things, but waiting and healing have never been my strengths. -Frances”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Witch Hunt