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

by Dana Schwartz

It seems our friend Dr. Sinnett here is the only woman of my acquaintance who has been able to escape the clutches of expectations. Is that all we need to do, learn how to sew a suture or remove a limb, and then we can be our own women?”

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

You are greater than yourself now. It’s not fair to be a symbol, Miss Sinnett, when it is so much easier to be a person.”

“Is anyone actually happy?” Hazel asked. “People like you and me? Very intelligent people? Almost never. But who knows? Perhaps we will be the exceptions.”