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“I can’t say what I really remember and what I only remember because Aunt Quinlan told me the story. But I remember how I felt. And that’s the important part.”

“… she trusts me not to reject her for being angry… I might say she is thinking of me like a mother. Someone who will take the worst she has to offer, and never turn away”.
This made me reflect on how often we take out our worst behaviours with those we love the most. I’d never connected it to trust before but it makes sense.

Elise’s thoughts 😌

I LOVE JACK & ANNA. ♥️

“That’s the house rule. Aunts and uncles and grandmas and grandpas, all around. For anyone who needs one, at any time. “

Now THAT is what I call a house full of and built on love.

“she wondered when things would wrong”

Isn’t it a shame that when things are going so well, our minds by default go to the negative and the inevitable “when will the other shoe drop?” mindset …

It was done then. Cap was gone, and she would never see him again. What an odd idea really, to know that someone so very necessary in your life was lost to you and couldn’t be called back.

“…she wanted to bind all those words together into a club and hit every man in the room over the head with it… they hadn’t understood the story behind the story…Mrs Stone had wrapped every observation in the language of well-brought up women, with the result that none of the men had any real sense of the anger and frustration that drove Janine Campbell”