“My mother made a sound that from a lesser woman would have been a snort.”
“What would my life, have been like, if I hadn't been put up for adoption? Who would my parents have been then? Or my parent, my mother?”
“I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.”
“At least it would have been perfect, if it wasn't for my mother.”
“You are not my mother. You are a scary Snort!”
“A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other. ”