Amanda Coplin Quotes

They were blessed, said Jane; they were going to give birth to themselves. It would be themselves they gave birth to, only better. That was why she and Della must work so hard to protect them, their children. In protecting the children Jane and Della would also (Jane explained this over and over again) save themselves -

And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Meddey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death.