Sometimes the hardest thing to hear is the truth.

“If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horrib…”

“I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets …”

“So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd …”

“The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The…”