“This is what parenting involved: hard decisions. She was his mother, she reminded herself. He didn't have to like her.”

“Human beings were so full of emotion. That was the problem. They could kill for a reason that to them felt like the only reason and to the rest of the rational thinking population felt like no reason at all.”

“This is what parenting involved: hard decisions. She was his mother, she reminded herself. He didn't have to like her.”