“Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?”

“shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?”

“But monotony doesn't make for painlessness.”

“If I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?”

“I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.”

“I imagine it's hard to go back once you've felt the continents in your palm.”

“But monotony doesn't make for painlessness. In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Appollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in relationship to the monotony of dumping: we have thirty two teeth. After a while, having each tooth individually destroyed probably gets repetitive, even dull. But it never stops hurting.”