“...life was messy, conflict inevitable. It didn't mean you had to fall apart.”
“I had a life. It was falling apart, but it was mine.”
“One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.”
“Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.”
“There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had? But if you didn't change at least a little, where were the passages of a life? Didn't learning, changing, sometimes mean letting go of what had once been seen as true?”
“I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment.”