" Here are all the reasons I hate Mark, the boyfriend Jess has had since last September.

1. He makes her cry sometimes.
2. Once, I saw bruises on her side and I think he's the one who gave them to her.
3. He always wears a big orange Bengals sweatshirt.
4. He calls me Chief, when I have explained multiple times that my name is Jacob.
5. He thinks I am retarded, even though the diagnosis of mental retardation is reserved for people who score lower than 70 on an IQ test and I myself have scored 162. In my opinion, the very fact that Mark doesn't know this diagnostic criterion suggests that he's a lot closer to actual retardation than I am.
6. Last month I saw Mark in CVS with some other guys when Jess was not around. I said hello, but he pretended that he did not know me. When I told Jess and she confronted him, he denied it which means that he is both a hypocrite and a liar. "

― Jodi Picoult , House Rules