The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club Quotes

“They were both old enough – had lived enough – to be of the belief that no one else could alleviate your pain or give you joy. You had to do it for yourself, and if you were lucky there was someone to stand witness.”
― Sophie Green, The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club

“Kate had a faraway look. ‘It’s funny, isn’t it?’ she said. ‘How we find out more from books than we do from life sometimes?”
― Sophie Green, The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club

“They were both old enough – had lived enough – to be of the belief that no one else could alleviate your pain or give you joy. You had to do it for yourself, and if you were lucky there was someone to stand witness. Rita and Sybil had been each other’s witnesses all that time.”
― Sophie Green, The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club

“a quote by Helen Keller, and she was determined to live by it: ‘Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.’ Della didn’t want her life to be nothing.”
― Sophie Green, The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club

“Animals lived and died. People lived and died. Nature changed in cycles, and each year it all went round again. Fate was a concept for people who needed a reason for everything, a bigger sense of purpose, and so often there was neither reason nor purpose.”
― Sophie Green, The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club