“I left. When I should have stayed.”
“I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only - still, I left.”
“James is why I never left. I should have left.”
“Because no, I didn’t push her away. I didn’t add to her pain or do anything tohurt her. Instead, I left her alone in that room. The only person who might’ve been able to reach out and save her from herself. To pull her back from wherever she was heading.I did what she asked and I left. When I should have stayed.”
“I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place.”
“A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition.”