" Shelly wanted to control people. She loathed any scenario in which she wasn’t the center square. It was like their family was a cult of some kind: Nikki had escaped first, then Sami. The world outside of Raymond was a more beautiful—and happy—place than Tori had ever thought possible. "

― Gregg Olsen , If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood