“Regret couldn't fix what he's broken. Apologies couldn't bring back what he's lost. What we'd lost.”

“I could take care of that obstacle for her - I'd tear down anything standing between us - but I couldn't destroy what I couldn't even see.”

“If this had ever happened before, it couldn't be happening now. That's what they mean by 'once in a lifetime'.”

“He shrugged, looking right into my eyes. "Right now, this is all I feel." He held our intertwined hands up for me to see and I wanted to look away, but I couldn't break the hold his gaze had on me, like he could see more than anyone else saw. Things I couldn't see myself.”

“You already said that,” Sabine said, folding the wrapper back from her burger. “You said it a lot, actually. Which supports my theory that apologies are basically pointless. They don’t fix anything, right? That’s why I rarely bother.”

“That's because your new tracker couldn't find his own dick in the dark.”

“I couldn't see who swam in the darkness, who wore shadows like a second skin.”