“Dad always insisted a man's job was to protect the women he love-whether mother, siser, wife, or teasured lover.”
“It was impossible to tell at first sight whether he loved his meek, obedient wife, Marfa. But he really did lover her, and she knew it.”
“You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.”
“She was his wife, mother, best friend, sister, lover, and priest.”
“Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's third wife Day.”
“Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?”