“Her mothers quiet disapproval and withdrawal was a death in itself, and Francklines despair at it was transmitted, she was sure of it, to the child. She transgressed twice, first by making the chil...”

“How naive Lore had been, despite being the daughter of a father no one spoke of, despite the strange, incomplete conversations at her mothers deathbed; how again and again she was caught up short b...”

“his mother, who had never been able to manage him, sent him to school to get rid of him, lamented his absence till he returned, then writhed and fretted under his presence until again he went.”

“Her mothers quiet disapproval and withdrawal was a death in itself, and Francklines despair at it was transmitted, she was sure of it, to the child. She transgressed twice, first by making the chil...”

“Over the years our mother has beaten us with belts, shoes, rulers, extension cords, hair brushes, a wooden spoon, a fly swatter, a toilet brush, wire coat hangers, wooden coat hangers and sometimes...”

“Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.”

“A child is conceived in a womb of a woman, miraculously, in sacred moment of conception.”

“War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.”