And people do not treasure what they cannot imagine losing.

It was not until I became a thing they could lose — until I walked out the door with my daughter in my arms and did not come back — that any of them discovered, too late, what I had actually been worth.\n\nChapter 5 — Don’t Apologize for Being Hungry

And then Chloe did something that broke me in a way nothing else that night could have.

She slipped out of my arms before I could catch her, and she ran to the trash can in the corner of the kitchen, sobbing, and she tried to give the chicken back — to make herself sick, to undo the terrible crime of having eaten one bite of food while she was hungry.