The Importance of Silence

"I was just telling her what it was like for me. Camila said nothing, looking through the cabinet for one of the multiple boxes of half-used spaghetti," she writes. "It angered me that it was less the silence of justified fury my partner messed up than a silence that implied I was crazy not to be engaged." The carefulness of her movements suggested she must tread lightly because I was unwell, he says.