A Rogue of One's Own (A League of Extraordinary Women, #2)

by Evie Dunmore

On the rare occasions she felt whimsical,

real

If you must put something in writing and make it rhyme, let it be timeless.

“The cynic is but an idealist who preempts the shock of disappointment by deriding everything himself.

Wordsworth meant he had it bad.

A focused Tristan, with furrows between his brows. She kept stealing glances at him in between letters. So many sides to a man she had once thought as shallow as a puddle.

when he shows interest in your interests>>>>

He was contemplating her with an alertness as though he had never really seen her before. “And it hasn’t occurred to you yet to shoot the next man you meet on sight?”

no because I love this man

He wore the expression of a man who had just learned that the earth was not flat.

The curious thing about causes is that they usually continue well without you. The question is whether you can continue well without them.

“What if love makes you want to fight harder? What if you look at your daughters and see the best reason to keep campaigning for women’s liberty? Or, think of the sons who might raise hell in Parliament as long as women cannot.”