“Forget what you were, and look forward to what you could be.”
“If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.”
“Of course I remember that. You sounded like a frat boy and looked like a fucking model. What man could ever forget that?”
“You were never what I wanted to forget.”
“Rain spat at him, and he looked up, thinking that alone was the way to be, because alone meant you were in charge of what could get to you and what you could keep out.”
“When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost.”