“Hell was something the Lost Girl knew. She has lived it all her life.”

“She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost.”

“But, with unintelligible nostalgia for a life she had never lived, knew that all would have been subtly and profoundly different had her husband greatly loved her.”

“The family she knew -- the life she knew -- officially was no more." Summer Girls, Page 192 by”

“Sophie has a gift," she said. "She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life she often wondered if she was mad. Now she knows that she is not mad but special.There, she was only a parlor maid, who would likely have lost her position once her looks had faded. Now she is a valued member of our household, a gifted girl with much to contribute.”

“She was the sort of girl called “bonny”—not beautiful, but lively and nicely made, with something about her that took the eye.”