“I was worried that we'd broken you.”
“Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!”
“I sometimes end up in dangerous situations, and I come back to you broken and messed up, and you worry about me when I'm gone. It's like marrying a policeman.”
“Over the past three years, we'd become each other's habit. And though he'd broken his habit of me when he walked away, I'd not broken my habit of him.”
“Regret couldn't fix what he's broken. Apologies couldn't bring back what he's lost. What we'd lost.”
“I like to keep a shotgun in my room for protection. You know, just in case my apartment gets broken into by a pack of deer, which is something I’m constantly worrying about.”