I loved Alex so much that it was easier to let him hurt me than to watch him hurt himself.
Jodi PicoultWith these words Jake had let go of me. Which proved that he knew more about why I was leaving than even I did. I had believed that I was running away from what had happened. I did not know, not until I met Nicholas days later, that the whole time I was really running towards what was yet to be.
Jodi Picoult