Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

I've given lots of people chances. But there's only so much faith you can have in people.

You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak is what you are,' I said.

Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.

The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.

Yes, it sucked getting dumped. But wasn't it better to just be brutally honest? To admit that your feeling for someone is never going to be powerful enough to justify taking up any more of their time? I was doing him a favor, really. Freeing him up for a better opportunity. In fact, I was a practically a saint, if you really thought about it. Exactly.