Chapter 496 Big Girls Don't Cry:>27

• "You never once came back to ask him how your baby was, if he was alive or dead, happy, anything at all, not a fucking dickey-bird! Well Daddy and mum brought up your son like their own, they did everything for him that you couldn't be bothered with, and my Darryl's the man he is because of them and not because of you; six weeks ago we'd never fucking heard of you, right now I wish to Christ I'd never heard of you at all, ever! There's nothing of you in him, nothing at all, he doesn't even look like you, and I'm glad of that; it means he doesn't have to see your face every time he looks in the mirror!"
• I was shocked, deeply, at her outburst; Lena never loses her temper, she's the most temperate and well-adjusted person I know, and now she was ramping-mad, her eyes blazing behind slitted lids, and her face livid, her chest heaving as she vented her fury on her absentee older sister.
• She drew breath for another broadside, and I squeezed her hand.