“Ah, you’ve come. Sit down — the world will not grow kinder while we stand.” “Home! What home?! You call this home?! After everything we’ve done for them — this is what we get?”

“Don’t you tell me to be calm. A mother’s anger is the only thing I have left to protect him.”

“I used to believe patience was a virtue. Now I think it’s just the name of the wound we never let heal.”