“they say I tried to hurt my nurse. I tell them they tried to hurt me first.”

“I tried not to feel hurt. Here was my own dad,telling me he was sorry i'd been born.”

“I turn back to them, trying to maintain control of my emotions, trying to keep the two of them from seeing that I'm shaking in sorrow and anger and hurt.”

“Why would I assume that the guy wanted to hurt me when nobody’s ever tried to hurt me before?”

“I tried to keep myself away from him by using con words like "fidelity" and "adultery", by telling myself that he would interfere with my work, that I had him I'd be too happy to write. I tried to tell myself I was hurting Bennett, hurting myself, making a spectacle of myself. I was. But nothing helped. I was possessed. The minute he walked into a room and smiled at me, I was a goner.”

“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”