It's disappointing that one person's selfishness can change the entire course of your life, good thing is that you get a chance at an even better one.

And this is how things go. If you are too miserly, he will spend too much because that will become just an act of being free. He will show you that you cannot control him. If you don’t control him, he himself may understand that he is unnecessarily wasting money. But let him see!

Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.

I don't want this heart, it's split in two.

There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go

It's what everyone wants when they're breaking someone's heart: to be rid of the person and yet absolved of guilt, of the unhappiness they've caused. They want their rationalizations heard and gulped up by the wronged, and they want their victims to go away, peacefully. To never be haunted again.