The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics (Feminine Pursuits, #1)

by Olivia Waite

The point of fashion is not for the gentlemen: they call it trivial because they cannot bear the thought of women having a whole silent language between themselves.

You could never sit back and let the official pieces of paper do the work for you, oh no: you had to choose the other person over and over again, every time. What’s worse, you had to trust them to choose you.

She ought to have paid more attention to her own self before now. She ought to have allowed herself to want things.