The Night Circus - Pg 112

   "She would have run off with him regardless," she says. "That was what she wished. It would not have been my choice for her, but a child should not have their choices dictated for them. I have listened to you read books aloud to my cats. When you were five years old you turned a laundry tub into a pirate ship and and launched an attack against the hydrangeas in my garden. Do not try to convince me that you would choose that farm."