““She hated it when people spoke as if the world was decaying now and it had been wonderful back then. Times were simpler. Children were well behaved and marriages stayed together and everyone was kind and generous to each other. What a lie. She didn’t understand why they wanted to believe such lies about the past, why they wanted to whitewash everything, go back in time. They pretended it was good because it had been good for them, maybe. But it wasn’t good for everyone. Just because things were whispered about and then locked away so no one saw the truth didn’t mean it was a beautiful time.””
