Sylvia Avila Quotes in The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)

Jocelyn: Do you think he has a brain tumor?

Sylvia Avila: I think he fell in love.

Jocelyn: Well, I'm rooting for the brain tumor.

Sylvia Avila: You want to do what a husband does? You want to fix things? You can't fix this. All that's gone now.

Sylvia Avila: Look, I adore Jocelyn, but . . . ah ha, if, "Loving is letting go," then whoever wants Jocelyn is going to have to pry her fingers loose, one by one.

Sylvia Avila: I was thinking just this morning about this book club we're in, Allegra and me. The first meeting was right after we separated, 'cause Allegra had just moved in. And I was realizing how different I feel. I don't think I'm the same woman that you left.

Daniel Avila: I can see that. I so see that.

Sylvia Avila: Well, it's probably the same for you. I guess that's what happens when you let go. We did a good job taking things apart. I'm kinda proud of us.

Daniel Avila: I was just thinking about something Allegra said at Jocelyn's the other day...so we're talking about how we all need to have connection, you know, conversation, sex, companionship, and Allegra says, "Well, you get all that from Mommy." I have to tell you, it really made me sad.

Sylvia Avila: Aw, baby, she'll find somebody.

Daniel Avila: No, it made me sad for us, because I've been struggling with whether a marriage can sustain all of that over, uh, over 20+ years or if it's just inevitable that after a certain amount of time-- maybe being with somebody else can have a renewing effect, because for me-- I've been seeing a woman at work. We've been together 6 months now . . . We, we can't think of this as a failure. We have had a very successful marriage. We've had a long marriage, by any standard. We got 3 wonderful kids. They're grown, they're working, they're--

Sylvia Avila: Just open the damn door, Daniel, I need a tissue.

Daniel Avila: The kids, that's, that's all you, you know, you made all the sacrifices, I know. But there's a logic to us quitting while we're ahead, and I think they'll be able to see that, you know?

Sylvia Avila: I don't understand a single word of what you're saying, Daniel.

Sylvia Avila: She

[Jocelyn]

Sylvia Avila: used to date my husband in high school. Then she sort of... gave him to me. Daniel's the one who first bought Jocelyn a dog.

Grigg Harris: She traded your husband for a dog?