Until the Twelfth of Never Quotes

“to this day, two trials later, Betty still frequently speaks of Dan Broderick, and sometimes Linda, as if they were still alive and well and tormenting her. "He's such a shit!" she exploded one day, nearly fifteen months later, after reciting some past example of his sins against her. "I'd like to kill him!" "But, Betty," her listener replied, "you did." Silence. Pause. Then a small, confused laugh. "Yeah, well … but I didn't get revenge ... he didn't suffer enough.”
― Bella Stumbo, Until the Twelfth of Never: The Deadly Divorce of Dan and Betty Broderick

“Either you understood impulsive rage, and the memory failures that sometimes go with it, or you didn't. That was it.”
― Bella Stumbo, Until the Twelfth of Never: The Deadly Divorce of Dan and Betty Broderick

“it's all over! Whatever happens, it's over. I don't have to worry about anything anymore!”
― Bella Stumbo, Until the Twelfth of Never: The Deadly Divorce of Dan and Betty Broderick

“Like a candle in the wind, she was, at one minute bright, even brilliant, in her thoughts; in the next moment, her intelligence flickered dimly, illuminating nothing except her own pathetic decline.”
― Bella Stumbo, Until the Twelfth of Never: The Deadly Divorce of Dan and Betty Broderick

“Nelson immediately told him to give Betty however much money she wanted, in order to promptly resolve the custody dispute, which was only hurting the children.”
― Bella Stumbo, Until the Twelfth of Never: The Deadly Divorce of Dan and Betty Broderick

“It was the tale of a woman scorned, a woman locked in battle over her man, her money, her children, and her rights as a long-term wife. It was a morality tale of Biblical proportions, involving adultery and covetousness, all of it wrapped in a great big flag emblazoned with the almighty U.S. dollar—and concluding in what, on the face of it, appeared to be a most blood-curdling case of stark, premeditated murder in the first degree. Shooting them in their sleep? No soap opera writer could have concocted better.”
― Bella Stumbo, Until the Twelfth of Never: The Deadly Divorce of Dan and Betty Broderick

“she no longer even spoke of him as her former husband. Now he was "the cuntsucker," the new woman in his life was "the cunt," and together they had "fucked me".”
― Bella Stumbo, Until the Twelfth of Never: The Deadly Divorce of Dan and Betty Broderick

“David Lusterman's opinions. He spoke in the universal language”
― Bella Stumbo, Until the Twelfth of Never: The Deadly Divorce of Dan and Betty Broderick

“William Styron's book ‘Memoirs in Madness’. She underlined nearly the whole thing.”
― Bella Stumbo, Until the Twelfth of Never: The Deadly Divorce of Dan and Betty Broderick

“Further, the order noted, "It is apparent to the Court that Wife must ultimately take some responsibility for contributing to her own support …”
― Bella Stumbo, Until the Twelfth of Never: The Deadly Divorce of Dan and Betty Broderick

“As the very term implies, this is a court-ordered effort to get the weary old mom out of the house and back into the job market, so that she can contribute to her own support.”
― Bella Stumbo, Until the Twelfth of Never: The Deadly Divorce of Dan and Betty Broderick

“Hers was the timeless tale of the imbalance of power between the sexes, at least in traditional marriages. She was typical of millions of wives who buy into the age-old bargain—he works, she housekeeps—only to discover in middle age that, when he walks out, "The wife doesn't even have the elemental rights of a business partner who got screwed. If Dan Broderick had defrauded a business associate the way he did me when he broke our contract, he would've been the one in jail today, not me.”
― Bella Stumbo, Until the Twelfth of Never: The Deadly Divorce of Dan and Betty Broderick