What statement by the character, Cally Whitehead, summarizes the novel?

Character, Cally Whiteheart Beads, summarizes the novel as follows: "Family stories repeat themselves in patterns and waves generation to generation, across bloods and times. Once the pattern is set we go on replicating it. Here on the handle the vines and leaves of infidelities."

There, a suicidal tendency, a fatal wish.

On this side drinking. On the other a repression of guilt that finally explodes.