"The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old." p. 3

"But Beth Crenshaw I would create myself, without reference to Bobby." p. 18

"Maybe that was why I'd avoided mirrors for the past couple of years, because it was so strange to me to see the look on my face, alert and oddly empty all at the same time, like the face of a blind person moving around a dangerous corridor, her arms outstretched." p. 35

"Maybe when you were a kid you were so unsure of yourself that every school year was a time of reinvention; maybe only adults were stupid enough to think they knew exactly who they were."
p. 47

"Direct conversation had never been the way to engage Robert; I had always had to wait through the silences for his words to swim up at me." p. 59

"All dead, all three of them, even...