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“Here was her son, capable of battling his mother—and so capable of fighting his way in the world all alone, as he would have to do one day. This was the destructive attainment of a mother’s life’s work.”

“But her suppressed agitation as the children continued to play showed her, moment by moment, who she was. A mother with no generosity, mother to nobody but her own child, her love showing how mother was the opposite of motherly”

Damn. This book is good.