That was the thing he would never quite be able to understand, and the thing that told her most completely that she was right to go.

A person you can still rage at is a person you are still, in some corner of yourself, fighting for.

She had stopped fighting for Dane somewhere around the moment his voice came out of Ophelia’s phone.

What was left was not hatred and not heartbreak, exactly, but something cooler and more permanent — the simple, settled recognition that she had seen the whole of who he was when it mattered most, and that the whole of who he was could not be trusted with the one thing she would give her life for.

You do not stay married to a man to reform him.

You especially do not stay for the sake of a daughter he has already, once, allowed to be used as bait.