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Quote #10
But do you know what I said to her, just before she left this house? She was twenty-one then and her father couldn't stop her. I said—'We don't want to hear anything from you until we hear that you've been married.' He was right beside me then and I knew it was what he would say. So I was the one to say it, because I didn't want her thinking I wouldn't stand by him. I had to stand by him—he was my husband. Do you know what she said? She said, 'I'll never get married.' She wasn't angry. She never fought, not your mother. She was gentle—like Maybeth. Your father wasn't a fighter, either. I don't know where you get it from because you are."
Dicey knew where she got it from, but she had a more urgent question. "Why didn't Momma want to get married?"
"She had seen what happens. She didn't want to give her word, like I did. We keep our promises, we Tillermans. We keep them hard." (2.11.37-39)
And a messed up family claims another victim. Abigail had to cast her daughter off because of the promises she made to her husband, and that's why Liza never wanted to get married. She didn't want to choose her family and then come to regret it like her mother had.