Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.
How plotless real life was!
People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.
Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.
Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.