“Would they have a life together anymore, after tonight? Or was this it? The end?”

“Now that it was finally here, she wasn’t surprised to find herself still reluctant to start it. Reluctant to end the part of her life when this conversation hadn’t happened yet. Reluctant to find out what her life would look like after it.”

“She began to sacrifice that old identity to live in her new one. It was the new life, after all, that everyone wanted.”

“It would make a lot more sense if she had imagined this whole thing, her whole life. Now would just be now, attached to some other, more straightforward past.”

“Maybe he was wondering if they could make it, such liars, together. A marriage based on so many things that were not true. A life lived so falsely, for so long.Kate didn’t know that Dexter hadn’t admitted all his lies. Just as she hadn’t revealed every one of her secrets.”

“And everyone's in the same situation, basically: we're all finding our separate ways, together.”

“Things always end more suddenly than expected.”