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'I remember how desperately I had to cling to the story of my happy marriage. It took effort. It felt so good to stop lying.'

'Calling a woman crazy is a man's last resort when he's failed to control her.'

'His energy was calm, and it had calmed me. But it wasn't the stillness of wisdom. It was the absence of empathy.'

'After bad things happen, it's good to hear from those who have survived them, but it's better if they don't say, You will get through this, too. That omission is the most comforting part. Don't ask me to take refuge in a lie.'

'My personality and life had been swallowed by motherhood, and every few days, my husband threw the fact that I didn't have a full-time job in my face. The work of caring for the baby was invisible to him.'

'He would decide whether I deserved relief. He would decide whether my pain even existed at all.'

'In the beginning I was only myself. Everything that happened to me, I thought, was mine alone.
Then I married a man, as women do.'