Alessandra

“Cruelty is not the only way fathers can ruin their sons. Expectations can do the same damage.”
― Sarah MacLean, The Rogue Not Taken

“Inheritance trumps inamorata.”
― Sarah MacLean, The Rogue Not Taken

“Happiness. That's what books smell like. Happiness. That's why I always wanted to have a bookshop. What better life than to trade in happiness?”
― Sarah MacLean, The Rogue Not Taken

“Words on stone are much more upsetting than words on newspaper. There is something so final about them; a name: some dates, a trite piece of verse, that's all you get for a whole life.”
― Hazel Osmond, The Mysterious Miss Mayhew