" Because we all do the same as our parents in the end. Your mother was glamorous and could have gone anywhere and done anything and yet she married your nice, safe father and came to live in a one-horse town like Lough Glass for security; you’ll do the same.’ ‘And what about you? Do you love Michael, Clio?’ ‘I don’t know. I honestly don’t know. What’s love?’ ‘I wish I knew that too,’ Kit spoke absently. She wondered was there any truth in what Clio said, that people did what their mothers did. If so, there was a stormy future ahead of Kit. "

― Maeve Binchy , The Glass Lake