“It was funny, in her old age, to look back and see for how short a period her nest had NOT been empty. Relatively speaking, it was nothing – empty far longer than full. so much of herself had been invested in those children; who could believe how briefly they’d been with her.”

“It was funny, in her old age, to look back and see for how short a period her nest had NOT been empty. Relatively speaking, it was nothing – empty far longer than full. so much of herself had been invested in those children; who could believe how briefly they’d been with her.”

— Anne Tyler