If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

by Gregg Olsen

It isn’t a mask that she wears to cover the past but an invisible badge of courage.

I loved my mother because I didn’t know I had a choice. I had to love her.”

Victims of abuse can still love the monster. This ambivalent loyalty might just be the predator’s ultimate form of damage.

Love is simply the form of damage.