“The second jealousy is this: I am jealous that my mother had wanted more children. Wasn’t I enough? When I walk in her moccasins, though, I say, “If I were my mother, I might want more children – not because I don’t love my Salamanca, but because I love her so much. I want more of these.”

“The second jealousy is this: I am jealous that my mother had wanted more children. Wasn’t I enough? When I walk in her moccasins, though, I say, “If I were my mother, I might want more children – not because I don’t love my Salamanca, but because I love her so much. I want more of these.”

— Sharon Creech