If I'd managed any of these ifs-- would I have been able to avoid the inevitable fuck-up, the full-force fuck-off? My pride shut me up, my heart shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.

“Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?”

“It's never the same city. Your city isn't even the same as my city, I bet.”

“I don’t think meaning is something that can be explained. You have to understan…”

“The past and the future are what's complicated. It's the present that's simple.…”