Is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. It was more than that. I know it was more than that.

“Oh my God. I've seen him at parties. The things I would do to that boy. I mean,…”

“What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You neve…”

“So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the…”

“Each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And these things happen—these peo…”