So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.

It's not always so simple, Haven. Sometimes there isn't a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

In a way, I was almost happy to see her. The worst part of me, out in the flesh. Blinking back at me in the dim light, daring me to call her a name other than my own.

I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.

The truth about forever is that it is happening right now.

It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well.