“Really? Was that how you quit me?”

“Quitting’s not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.”“Really? Was that how you quit me?”

“In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.”

“If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?”

“He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.”

“If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.”

“How can it be so unclear to her when it's like the fingers on my hand to me?”