In the endgame a pawn can change into a queen. - Kate Atkinson

"She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said.
"Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.

I wanted her for what she was, but when I got her I wanted her to change.

Writing felt like something she knew, although she only knew it from the other side – reading – and it took her a while to realize that writing and reading were completely different activities – polar opposites, in fact. And just because she could do joined-up handwriting, she discovered, didn’t mean that she could write books. But she persevered, perhaps for the first time in her life.