Quotation

I was looking at the end of a marriage, the final flicker as that last wee ember winked and went out. === You think I’m a dope? Now I’m a dope with a gun... === You said shut your ‘big mother’ instead of shut your big mouth. Talk about a Freudian slip. That’s hysterical. === He reminded me of Pinocchio. As clever as he thought he was, he was gullible, likely to fall into bad company. === He’d learned to toss painful issues into little boxes with the lids nailed shut; this when he was five years old and his parents got divorced. Even at that age, he recognized the jeopardy he was in. He was the focus of the hostilities—not his person, but the fact that he was Tigg and Joan Montgomery’s only begotten son. They quarreled, through their attorneys, over legal custody, physical custody, visitation, child support, schooling, and every other decision that was made from the moment they separated.