"I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on the way." (13)

"For ... the garden." (18)

"On the day, because we did not ask him to come, he forgot and never saw, in the last month of his life, his oldest daughter star of all the field." (25)

"Only because you two won't have anything to do with her." (40)

"I had accepted without curiosity the fact that Mother was rarely out of bed now. She became bedridden so gradually we hardly commented on it. Since my birthday, two weeks before, she had not been up at all." (49)

"And he said he was tired of being a boy and he wanted to be a girl now." (54)

"I might have to go away soon." (58)

"Don't you think we ought to tell someone?" (65)

"When Mother died, beneath my strongest feelings was a sense of adventure and freedom which...