I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.
“And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.”
“Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.”