- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Despite Lily’s efforts to make things work and forgive Ryle, this passage shows that her initial instinct was more accurate; she memorized Atlas’s number because her past gives her a deep understanding that abusive people rarely demonstrate abusive behavior once. As her parents showed her, abuse tends to repeat itself.
Calling Atlas for help is less an indication that Lily still loves him than it that she trusts him—and no longer trusts Ryle. Lily’s anger at herself isn’t rooted in her feeling of responsibility for her husband’s abusive behavior, but rather because her love for Ryle prevented her from listening…