"Again I say, the love a child is given is always the love they learn to give in return."
She cups his face.
"If you don't want your children to suffer the fate you do, then the love you give them must be warm, not cold. You might think Mia -- or whatever girl you marry -- can give the love you can't, but it isn't so. The love of one parent doesn't make up for the lack of it from the other."
Sorrow lingers there, looking into his eyes as her palms cradle his face, searching for an opening.
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Date: 2007-05-21 06:34 am (UTC)She cups his face.
"If you don't want your children to suffer the fate you do, then the love you give them must be warm, not cold. You might think Mia -- or whatever girl you marry -- can give the love you can't, but it isn't so. The love of one parent doesn't make up for the lack of it from the other."
Sorrow lingers there, looking into his eyes as her palms cradle his face, searching for an opening.
A gap in the armour of Draco's mind and heart.