Quotes from Bella Stumbo

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.

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.

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.

David Lusterman's opinions. He spoke in the universal language

Either you understood impulsive rage, and the memory failures that sometimes go with it, or you didn't. That was it.

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.

it's all over! Whatever happens, it's over. I don't have to worry about anything anymore!

Further, the order noted, "It is apparent to the Court that Wife must ultimately take some responsibility for contributing to her own support …

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".

William Styron's book 'Memoirs in Madness'. She underlined nearly the whole thing.