Ali Ryan

“carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

“I understand how being pleasant can keep the peace, but how will it win a war?”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own

“Perhaps you can explain it to me, then,” she said, “how is it fair that my utterly inept cousin is in command of me, for no reason other than that he’s a man and I’m a woman? How is it fair that I master Latin and Greek as well as any man at Oxford, yet I am taught over a baker’s shop? How is it fair that a man can tell me my brain was wired wrong, when his main achievement in life seems to be his birth into a life of privilege? And why do I have to beg a man to please make it his interest that I, too, may vote on the laws that govern my life every day?”
― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke