Do you understand?

The most powerful thing you can do for Maya right now is stay calm and build the record.”

It was almost unbearable to hear.

Every cell in me wanted to drive to that house and tear it down with my bare hands.

But I understood that Silvia was right, and that the discipline she was asking of me was the discipline that would actually protect my daughter — and I have thought since that there was a bitter symmetry in it, that the thing I had to do now was the very thing I had done wrong for four years.

Stay calm.