“You could at least pretend to be morally conflicted.”
“I would never ask you to forfeit your future. And you would never do it anyway.”
“You should love something while you have it, love it fully and without reservation, even if you know you’ll lose it someday.”
“If you’re trying to avoid loss, there’s no point in taking another breath, or letting your heart beat one more time. It all ends.”
“That’s all life is. Breathing in, breathing out. The space between two breaths.”
“Let’s take it slow. We’ve only just found each other again.”
“This is real. We’re still in love, and I missed you so much.”
“You’re right, though. I am still in love with you.”
“I’m not giving up my future for a man.”
“I’d give up my future for love.”
“Guess I’m more romantic than you, then.”
“That’s not romantic, that’s stupid.”
“Do or die.”
“Do, and hopefully not die.”
“The best you could hope for was to live and keep playing a little longer.”
“I know what I’m doing.”
“Maybe you should shut the fuck up, or I’ll start having second thoughts.”
“Everyone’s in love with you.”
“What if this is all we have?”
“Don’t you see how different I am now?”
“No future and no past, only an endless now.”
“We’re not done yet.”
“Let me guess. ‘You won’t get away with this’ ”
“You know, I feel sorry for you.”
“I’m trying to help you.”
“You changed my life.”
“I can’t do this to you.”
“You don’t know what you’re doing.”
“You have a life to live, not a broken man to fix.”
“Who fixes broken people? Is it other broken people, ones who’ve already been ruined?”
“Do we need to be fixed? It was the messiness and hurt in our pasts that drove us, and that same hurt connected us at a subdermal level, the kind of scars written so deeply in your cells that you can’t even see them anymore, only recognize them in someone else.”
“Why can’t you let yourself do what makes you happy?”
“You drop the bullshit and tell me yes or no.”
“You talk like you’re so jaded and wise, but sometimes you’re pretty naive.”
“The point is, I don’t have a clean slate. All that shit comes with me.”
“Your problem have always been part of you, and I accepted them. That doesn’t change now.”
“You fucking coward.”
“If you think you’re so wrong for me, own it, and let me decide.”
“Don’t try to do what’s best for me.”
“You look beautiful. So beautiful and far away.”
“But he only stood there, breaking my heart.”
“I don’t want it to end.”
“That’s not good enough.”
“Are you coming with me or not?”
“I’m really sorry to show up like this.”
“Everyone loses in a situation like that.”
“It just had to end.”
“This isn’t a fucking movie. This is my life.”
“He isn’t a knight in shining armor with perfect timing and a stainless steel past and I’m not some damsel in distress who needs saving, anyway.”
“We’re just two messed-up people who don’e get their happy ending.”
“Happy endings are for movies, and fairy tales.”
“He can talk about the future all he wants, but it’s not going to wait for him to start.”
“Funny, how easy happiness had been when it was us against the world.”