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"Sylvia thought how all parents wanted an impossible life for their children - happy beginning, happy middle, happy ending. No plot of any kind. What uninteresting people would result if parents got their way."

"Hindsight is twenty-twenty, just as they say."

"Staying still was more work than moving; thinking too much was fatal."


- The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

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