“Thankfully, the farmers understand my request that the children not be allowed to peer through the windows at me.It would be alarming for them to see me with their dolls, to see me using the knife on their faces. There are some things children never should see.”
“Our ancestors are our children; we peer through a hole in the wall and watch them play in their rooms, and they can't see us.”
“We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.”
“To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.”
“We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.”
“And maybe then when they were all a family, Tommy would be able to see what Mary used to see, what his other children saw, not just a man who would kill for them but a man who would die for them...the man underneath it all.”