Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his friends. Or perhaps especially to his friends, whose good opinion of him, he might feel, would not survive the revelations.
~ Mary Doria Russell
...even a poisoned, desolate childhood can be missed.
~ Julianna Baggott
Don’t even talk to me about being a mother. You were never a mother! Just the psychotic twat I lived with for the first fourteen years.
~ Brandon Shire
