“Each day I lacerated myself thinking on her, but I didn't go back.”
“but I should have known from her original announcement of independence to believe in the sincerity of her distaste for involvement, instead hurling on at her as if and because in fact I wanted to be hurt and 'lacerate' myself”
“I had been lying to myself, thinking I was free, thinking I had let him go. It didn't matter what he said or did, I'd never let him go." - Belly Conklin”
“I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.”
“But I didn't think I'd ever wanted her more than in that moment when I was witnessing her put herself back together.”
“Each piece of glass is another piece of myself I gave to him. It's too bad I didn't keep any pieces for myself.”