How much [vastly (immensely tremendously)...] Anwar loves [t]his child. It continues to take him by surprise [even when she confounds him with the havoc of her room (for example) which she will proudly describe (defend!) as clean (those beautiful messes) even as (in the next moment) she will astonish Anwar with her fearless interest in life (despite the harrowing blows life continues to deliver her)].