The dirt shifted beneath me, covering my legs. I didn’t try to push it away. They’d driven away. Left me behind. They’d gotten their chance to finally be rid of me, and they’d taken it. A chance to finally be free from their mean, ugly, deformed daughter. The one who’d been a curse since the day she was born. Who’d killed her mother. Who refused to let anything good come into their lives.
Yet again, we see a bit of vulnerable truth behind Kathryn's often abrasive exterior; we get a view of how she sees herself. Some reviewers have remarked on how unlikeable Kathryn is--and that's the point. It is impossible to show love when we don't believe we are worthy of receiving it ourselves.
