Tan 185
“if I didn’t listen to her, she said my ear would bend too easily to other people, all saying words that had no lasting meaning"
Tan 189
"You were manipulated into thinking you were nothing next to him. And now you think you’re nothing without him."
Tan 190
"Was the check an afterthought?"
Tan 192
"I realized that ten thousand dollars was nothing to him, that I was nothing to him"
Tan 194
"He wanted the wanted the house. He wanted the whole thing to be over with as soon as possible. Because he wanted to get married again, to someone else."
Tan 196
"That expression of his used to terrify me into stammers.”