Who hurt you once so far beyond repair / That you would greet each overture with curling lip. - Louise Penny

The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life.

What did falling in love do for you? Can you ever really explain it? It filled empty spaces I never knew were empty. It cured a loneliness I never knew I had. It gave me joy. And freedom. I think that was the most amazing part. I suddenly felt both embraced and freed at the same time.

And while forgetting the past might condemn people to repeat it, remembering it too vividly condemned them to never leave.