Anne Tyler - Three Days in June
Max said, "We did get a glimpse of Debbie this morning, incidentally. Looking very put together and self-possessed."
"Of course," my mother said. "She takes after me."
I wondered why it was that I had so many irritating people in my life.
Sometimes when I find out what's on other people's minds I honestly wonder if we all live on totally separate planets.
And your dad took me aside and told me that any time you did something that just completely baffled me, I should come to him and he would explain it.
As if there could ever be a right time to do such a thing [divorce] to a child! We'd have to wait till Debbie was forty.