I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

And here it will end, one way or the other," she whispered again

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.

Toward the end of their relationship she'd told him once, "I wish I could give you what you're looking for, but I don't know what it is. There's a part of you that you keep closed off from everyone, including me. Its as if I'm not the one you're really with. Your mind is on someone else." He tried to deny it, but she didn't believe him. "I'm a woman - I know these things. When you look at me sometimes, I know you're seeing someone else. Its like you keep waiting for her to pop out of thin air to take you away from all this.

There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you're automatically cutting out elements and introspection but this is actually a film that stays very close to the novel.

And believe it or not, she has a phone and everything. She stopped using smoking signals last year.