The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Reading keeps you from going gaga

All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged - after all, what's good enough for Jane Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. But it's a lie. The story is about to begin, and every day will be a new piece of the plot.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

Ju writes to Sid the reason why she did not marry Rob Dartry. And she recalls Rob's various kinds of sports kits.Here they go:"... there were awards for every game that could possibly be played w/ a wooden object: cricket bats, squash racquets, tennis racquets, oars, golf clubs, ping-pong paddles, bows and arrows, snooker cues, lacrosse sticks, hockey sticks, and polo mallets".think they'll be helpful in the future.oh, and then she says to Sid:"Remember the night last year when you met my train to tell me my home had been bombed flat? you thought i was laughing in hysteria? i wasn't-- it was in irony-- if i'd let Rob store all my books in the basement, i'd still have them, every one."uhh~~~ this part makes the book most like a real world life-- you sacrifice one thing to protect what you think is important to yourself, but find that the one you've chosen to leave should be the right way to.