"You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out."
"Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside"
"Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?"
"I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying."
"It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot."
"Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative.""Which is?""Not even trying."Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?"