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. Charlotte and I were tutored in languages and music for the sake of becoming accomplished enough to attract husbands. We’ll marry, and become matrons, and then we will raise our sons to make decisions on our behalf.”

“How long does heartbreak last? Because I’m not faking it, Miss Sinnett. Not really. I feel it as real as any illness. The pain in my heart and in my stomach. The way my entire body feels ready to betray me at a moment’s notice, how I might burst into tears at the sight of anything: flowers, or a mother and child, or strangers embracing. It’s as real as any of the illnesses my father’s doctors have diagnosed me with, except there’s no tonic I can take to cure it. There is nothing a physician can do to make me feel better.”

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