Jim’s answer to “Does anyone have any thoughts on the passage towards the end of the book, when Eileen wonders how h…” > Likes and Comments

In the end, she was a coward. Idealism without consequences is the pathetic dream of every spoiled brat.

Thank you. This one line hit me so hard. It's beautiful. It's like this is the one-liner that transforms Eileen's thinking, divorces her from the past, and finally gets her on track.

This line practically is the "climax" of the story.

The period goes outside the quotation marks.

Got it Liam 👍🏼, fixed. Ready to read a book?