Why doesn't momma come back?

“Even after everyone had gone home, the house was filled with the good time they…”

“Is there such a thing?' Birle asked.He looked thoughtfully at her, but not as i…”

“Mina wanted some of the kind of love Momma gave to her children, where love was…”

“She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.”