The Echo Wife: A dark, fast-paced unsettling domestic thriller

It didn’t occur to me to watch for cowardice the same way I watched for anger.

knew that my chin drifted toward whatever I was paying attention to.

The way I see it, you mostly stop loving a person the same way you stop respecting them. It can happen all at once, if something enormous and terrible falls over the two of you. But for the most part, it happens by inches, in a thousand tiny moments of contempt that unravel the image you had of the person you thought you knew.

Stress stimulates growth. Sometimes, in order to make something develop in the right direction, you have to hurt it.

pitiless.

waited until Martine was out of sight before allowing myself to collapse into a parenthesis.