I should have felt pity, but I felt only contempt. I knew had it been a girl she would have mourned less, and it angered me.


Book Two, Part II The Water, Chapter 1 (p. 173) - The Birthgrave (1975)


I should have felt pity, but I felt only contempt. I knew had it been a girl she would have mourned less, and it angered me.

I should have felt pity, but I felt only contempt. I knew had it been a girl she would have mourned less, and it angered me.

I should have felt pity, but I felt only contempt. I knew had it been a girl she would have mourned less, and it angered me.

I should have felt pity, but I felt only contempt. I knew had it been a girl she would have mourned less, and it angered me.