Rachel Buteaux’s Reviews > The Wren, The Wren > Status Update

“The same mixture of cooing and shrieking around the cot that happened around the wedding; the sweetness of it set Carmel’s teeth on edge. It was the sound women make, she thought, when they are offering their lives up for slow destruction. And loving it. And doing it for love. And feeling sorry for people who did not have this love in their lives, because my goodness, it was the winning ticket.”

Of her mother … “if you spoke to her while she was reading she would look at you from a lovely distance.”
I’d love it if my kids perceived me this way but I am unable to suppress my irritation.