Keeping score is the one thing I will not stop doing.

I wore the bracelet to dinner, and under the table, in the gray notebook in my bag, I wrote down the date.

I have thought a great deal, since, about why the diamond and the bruise work so well together, and I believe it is because they attack the one faculty a person needs most to get free, which is the ability to trust her own account of her own life.

If he had only ever hurt me, I would have known, cleanly, what he was.