As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.

I know, but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. Forever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back anymore. Can you understand that?

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

When a person sets a thing in motion, there's a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth.

Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.

What were the odds that she'd turn away at the same instant the ball came flying her way? And that she'd be holding a soda in a crowd at a volleyball game she didn't even want to watch, in a place she didn't want to be? In a million years, the same thing should probably never happen again. With odds like that, she should have bought a lottery ticket.

But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.