True Murder

"She hates it it when Pa has girlfriends. She says some men cant help themselves. Then she cries, and when she stops crying, she says theyre weak - like children."

"Yes, some fathers are like that, ... It drives my mother crazy. Does Isobel go crazy as well?"

"Yeah. She doesnt understand Peter like I do. Just like my mother. Yeah?"

"My father must have realised that his marriage wasnt going to survive. He was biding his time, waiting for the right moment to leave. But theres never a good time to leave a grief-stricken wife."

"So, instead of abandoning us, Pa did the next best thing: he avoided my mother as much as possible, staying away for days on end."

"Dismissing her accusations of infidelity, he claimed she was imagining things; he was staying overnight with relatives."

"He left her to me. And for that I can never forgive him."

"Since Mama wouldnt let them visit us, he was spending time with them for a change. Of course there wasnt another woman! Mama was being neurotic, overwrought."