>I tried not to make it worse by asking for things, pulling her down with my thoughts. I had seen girls clamor for new clothes and complain about what their mothers made for dinner. I was always mortified. Didn’t they know they were tying their mothers to the ground? Weren’t chains ashamed of their prisoners? [[1999 - White Oleander]], as seen in [[2023 - antiheroines - Toxic Beauty and Narcissistic Mothers]].