#23

"you don't understand!" she cried, "you really don't get it, do you? you only get this one shot, this one chance to prove yourself to yourself. because in the end, you're the only one that will be let down. when all of this is said and done, gone, like all the yesterdays and second chances, what will you have left? yourself. and once you let yourself go, there will be no one else left to catch you when you fall."
he stared forward, through her eyes and her heart to the wall behind her.
she looked into him.
he turned away.