Rosa’s Reviews > The Correspondent > Status Update

It made me cry a bit. The part when she confessed to Theodore about Gilbert. Also, I was so sad when Sybil died and Theodore wrote to Hattie to tell her that her sister had died.

P262 I was irritated with him, and he said, WATCH. Watch me. Watch my dive, Mom. I wish I could remember, but here is where things go murky. I lose the trail in my memory, but one thing is clear, Theodore. Without looking up, I said, JUST GO, COLT. JUMP! It was the nickname I used for him.

P216 Thorne, Luisa with child, Henrietta -So Hattie was born in the USA?
P221Felix tells Sybil that his partner Stewart cheated on him and Felix is leaving him.
P241 He (Daan) thought I (Sybil) was wonderful, and I’ll always love him for that. - Sybil to her daughter Fiona
P242 I know you think of me as your mother only, but please remember, inside I am also just a girl. -Sybil to her daughter Fiona

P208 The fact is I (Hattie) knew Mum had a daughter before I was born, but Dec thought she'd delivered stillborn. Mum always told me the baby had died in the first few days, and I'd not had any reason to second-guess a thing like that, but it was something else you said in your first let-er, which was that your DNA showed Native American parentage. My father was half Crow. It seemed too odd a coincidence to ignore.

P207 I (Dezi) saw you (Sybil) in the window sitting at a desk. I was watching you for a long time. How tiny you are, and you had a mailbox in the shape of a fish and a wreath on the door, these nice things. I hated you for such a long time, but you were just a small old woman and I was lost. I didn't know what to do so I cut the flowers. This didn't help. - Dezi Martinelli

P203 She looked positively surprised and we faced off for another moment, but then all the air went out of it, and it seemed very funny to me all of a sudden. I don't know what on earth was happening, but I found myself trying not to smile, or rather, trying not to laugh, but my face must have broken and then we were both laughing, these two short women standing thirty feet apart, it was really very funny. -M and

P202 and nobody noticed me. (This is the trouble with being only five foot one inch, and it has always been the trouble, but you know I am tall on the inside.)
P204 Dean Melissa and Sybil meet and become friends. Sybil audits a poetry course.

P191 Sybil is upset with /Rosalie for hosting Fiona without telling Sybil. Fiona is Rosalie’s godmother and wanted some advice.
P194 Sybil’s family: sister Hattie born 10/1943, brothers by Sybil’s mom Declan, twins John and Douglas born in 1948. Father: Charles Thorne, Mother Louisa Gleason. Charlie married Susanah and had two sons, Davie and Joe.

*P187 … well liked because he only ever said the things people wanted to hear. He taught me that, too. To say what people want to hear, not necessarily the truth, because most people tell you they want to hear the truth, but they do not, and if you tell the truth it will come back to bite you like a snake finding its own tail to swallow. -Theodore to Sybil

P133 When I read it I felt frightened, really frightened, COLT. -Sybil in an unsent letter 10/1/2015
P137 Daan leaves and inheritance for Sybil.
P160 … after a quarter-century drought, at the age of 77, I find myself courted by two men at the same time! (Mick and Theodore) Sybil writing to her brother Felix.