"I don't know what I was feeling at that time, or what the situation was. When I finally came to, I was holding a shovel stained with dark soil, and Mother... was already buried in the ground..."
"Those people who called themselves our relatives... not a single one of them came..."
"Some of them, I don't even know if they did it on purpose, asked me, 'How come we haven't seen your mother in all these days?'"
Chapter 253