“When someone starts to change, and it’s obvious, it's sort of natural to wonder why. Right?”
“You can see when someone's been hurt the way I was. It's obvious. Something changes in their eyes; pain becomes their center, even when they try to hide it.”
“You can't change nature, son!""Change IS nature, dad, the part we can influence. And it all starts when we decide.”
“I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.”
“When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.”
“You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet..”