Shawn, that's true... it's weird!
Especially these together (mind not the tense changes):
And that's how it started. Only on her son’s death would she realize how little she stood to gain--but Wang knew now. They really had no choice; the Mother had seen to that. Love and joy and happiness, those are just masks we wear.
She's in the garden. Berries, whatever they were, sounded good.
She hesitated for a second, then ran up the steps, unlatched the gate and slipped inside the house.
"Why would I even think such a thing, much less say it?
I think there is much you aren’t telling. But you can’t always explain what you observe. Now I only eat vegetarian."
The end.