Quotes / Woobie Family

Fillory had made the Chatwin family famous, but most people didn't know — or they knew but chose not to think about it - that it had ruined them, too. Martin, Plum's great-uncle, high king and hero of the Fillory books, had disappeared when he was thirteen. He was never found. Jane, the youngest, the moppet, vanished when she was the same age. The others survived, more or less, but nobody came out of it unscathed. Helen changed her name and ended her life as an evangelical Christian in Texas. Fiona Chatwin got along by never once mentioning Fillory as an adult; when pressed on the subject she exhibited faint surprise and claimed she'd never heard of it. As for Rupert, Plum's great-grandfather, he was by all accounts a wreck of a man who spent his adult life in neurotic seclusion until Field Marshal Erwin Rommel came along to put him out of his misery.

—The Magician's Land