They were not going to spend their childhoods being less important to me than my hatred of the people who wronged them.

So I turned my back on the downfall of my enemies, deliberately, and I gave my children the thing they had actually been missing all along, which was a parent whose whole attention was, at last, entirely and unmistakably on them.

Chapter 17 — What a Child Should Carry

The healing was not fast, and it was not simple, and it did not look like anything dramatic.

For a while, in the first weeks, Lily could not fully relax when Leo cried.