Give her the paperwork.” That was the wisest counsel I received in the whole ordeal, and it went against every instinct my anger had.

The way you actually beat someone like Rebecca is not with a louder voice than hers.

It is with a quieter one — with evidence preserved and dated, with an attorney’s letter, with a police report filed calmly, with the slow patient machinery that does not care how wounded or how charming anyone is, only what can be proven.

Rebecca had built her whole life on being the most persuasive person in any room.

Daniel taught me to take the fight somewhere persuasion doesn’t work, and that is the only reason I won it.