"But my father was dead and my name was hers and everyone said I was surely her daughter, so why did she leave me except that she did?" Part 1, pg. 11

"Arthur said to me, 'No one could be happy the way she was.' He said, 'No one in the family was as generous...remember that,' but I forgot." Part 1, pg. 19

"I did not become what I had hoped I might become...I stayed a shapeless, wicked girl, clumsy, shy, easily embarrassed." Part 1, pg. 25

"Florida, where was it, I wondered, but nobody knew." Part 1, pg. 30

"Mother took her old name back, making me one of them - Uncle Billy, Aunt Frances, we had the same last name: Fivey. I was my mother all over again. Alice Fivey." Part 1, pg. 44

" 'It is possible your mother might come home,' Uncle Billy had told me long ago, and I...