" You did mess them up!’ And she had her hairbrush in her hand because I guess she’d been doing her hair and she started hitting me in the head with it, slam on one side of my head, slam on the other side, and I was ducking away and shielding my head—” “Yes, well,” Willa said, “it’s true she could be—” “You know what’s the saddest thing about kids whose mothers are mean to them? It’s that even so, their "
― Anne Tyler , Clock Dance