The Clockmaker's Daughter

by Kate Morton

What purpose could a person find in the long trudge ahead, if they hadn’t curiosities to light the way?

What it was to be the youngest of three—what luck to be born into a jumbly, rowdy group of bigger people and be simply adored.

Experiencing the world at one remove, through the windows of their phones, making images for later so that they do not need to bother seeing or feeling things now.

There will come a time, I know, when women will have the same opportunities afforded men. How can it not come to pass when women are the smarter and more numerous? Until then, you must take control of your own destiny. Read, remember, think.”