But a child is not a weapon, and the moment you make her one, you have done to her the same thing her father did to me — you have turned a whole human being into a tool for your own purposes, a means to somebody else’s end.

I would not do to my daughter what had been done to me, even in her defense, even against the person who did it.

So I drew the line and I did not cross it.

Aurora would never learn, from me, that she had been born into a war.

She would learn that she was the dawn her mother had been waiting for through a long dark night, and that everything her mother did in those months, she did so that Aurora would never have to.

The fraud, I would fight in a courtroom.