Portrait of a Scotsman (A League of Extraordinary Women, #3)

by Evie Dunmore

“It just occurs to me that my notions about marriage have been nurtured over a dozen years, and undoing such beliefs with factual evidence is impressively ineffective.”

Worse, the things one had learned early often felt instinctual, as unquestionable as the act of breathing, and the familiarity of them mattered rather than whether they were good or harmful.

I like the idea of being a wife, and of doing wifely things, such as embroidering his socks and braces. I wish to spend my life with a best friend.