“But Brook was on a roll. She started gesturing and pacing the carpet.

"All I ask for is a cute little hideaway that hasn't sustained decades of internal structural damage. I don't want a fixer-upper; I don't want to spend all my free time fixing the previous owners' mistakes; I just want to move in and unpack. Is that really so much to ask?"

"Yes," Anna said. "Both with houses and with men." (p 187)”