I have made my peace with the fact that some doors, once a person shows you what is behind them, should stay shut forever.

I am not a cruel woman, and I do not go through the world looking for people to cut off.

But a man had put my nine-year-old child out into a killing storm, and had told him not to come back until he confessed to something he had not done, and there are acts that end a relationship as surely and as finally as a death, and place the person who committed them permanently outside the circle of one’s care.

Arthur put himself outside that circle.