Status Updates From When Women Were Dragons

“If I had known how this story would end, would I have done anything differently? Would I still have loved her, body and soul?
In my mind's eye, I can see Camilla asking me that very question.
Oh, my darling, I feel my heart answer. I wouldn't change a single
thing.”

“Sometimes, I feel that we are all tricked by love, and its rigid requirement of pain.
We find the love of our lives and cleave to our beloved when we are still quite young and do not yet understand that we must, by our nature, die someday. In any successful marriage, one partner must face the reality of being very old, and very alone. What is grief, but love that's lost its object?”

“I began to make plans for what my future might be—what once felt like a mad dash to the end of a cliff now felt like an interesting path in a beautiful wood that may or may not lead to the top of a mountain. And yes, the chances of my arrival at that destination were uncertain, but oh! What a mountain! And oh!
What a view! And what a pleasure it was to keep moving forward.”

book club pick!!