Immortality: A Love Story (The Anatomy Duology #2)

by Dana Schwartz

“Every woman marries into obsolescence,” Eliza said. “The things that make us celebrated as young women—being charming, and being coquettish and being clever? In a married woman and mother, all of that becomes desperate and embarrassing, like wearing too much rouge. Even our educations serve no purpose after we’re wed.

It was a rare gift, Hazel thought, to be surrounded by intelligent people who actually cared what you had to say.

There was no hope arguing with a lie people wanted to believe.

Hope was a dangerous thing. Most of the pain in the world, Jack had learned, was because of hope.

Same story as always: they’re liberal until they’re old and rich and scared.”

“But turns out true stupidity is believing you’re secretly brilliant.”

There are always women behind the scenes, pulling the strings, Hazel. We are invisible to history, but we also survive.”

“Live long enough and the past becomes an endless parade of mistakes and things that might have been done better or differently. What can we do but continue on, and try again?”