"Don't I have a right to live?" she said. "Can't a woman live even if she is a mother?" (book 5 chapter 5) - Jo Sinclair

Many of the passengers could not help staring at Anna Teller. It was mid-December of 1956; all the newspapers they had brought onboard were still headlining one story, and here was part of the story in the flesh.

Anna Teller was the only refugee on the plane from Munich to New York.

His own suffering, preceding the similar experiences of his nephews, makes him unwilling to face the idea of progeny. He is afraid of the continued perpetuation of "wasteland," and yet he now tries courageously to discover the truth of that condition, the source of it, perhaps the cure.... (chapter Five, p194)