“Maybe I'd ignored longing so many times through the years until eventually I'd just stopped feeling it.”
“I'd always thought it was them, but maybe it was just what it felt like to not be ignored.”
“She was starting to think there might be such a thing as karma - that repetition - maybe you lived through the same thing over and over until you stopped caring. Maybe eventually it got less intense, until it was just nothing.”
“The pain started years ago, but I'd lived with it for so long at that point that I'd accepted it as an inevitable part of me.”
“I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.”
“I mean, maybe under the surface, somewhere that's hard to see, I've known it had to end for a long time. I just never thought I'd be the one to end it.”