Motherhood was not the thing that made me vulnerable.

It is the thing that made me certain.

Chapter 17 — Quiet Was Never Weakness

Luca spent the years of our marriage making one particular error about me, and it is an error I have watched a certain kind of man make about a certain kind of woman my whole life, and it is always, in the end, the thing that undoes him.

He mistook my quiet for weakness.