Meredith’s Reviews > God Help the Child > Status Update

Sweetness: There is no return address on the envelope. So I guess I'm still the bad parent being punished forever till the day I die for doing the well-intentioned and, in fact, necessary way I brought her up.

Queen: They will blow it. Each will cling to a sad little story of hurt and sorrow -- some long-ago trouble and pain life dumped on their pure and innocent selves. And each one will rewrite that story forever, knowing the plot, guessing the theme, inventing its meaning and dismissing its origin. What a waste.

Booker: You're not responsible for other folks' evil.

Sweetness: [Bride] taught me a lesson I should have know all along. What you do to children matters.

Sweetness: I wasn't a bad mother, you have to know that, but I may have done some hurtful things to my only child because I had to protect her.