Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature

I cried for all of those things that should have just been for us…

The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.

My new favorite title is How Jane Austen Ruined My Life. I don’t have the courage to read it, though. I’m afraid to discover she’s ruined mine as well.

Life is like defusing a bomb, once you cut the wrong wire your whole life is ruined.

Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who’ve already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed? It was the messiness and hurt in our pasts that drove us, and...