[ He says that passionately. But then, less passionately, more restrained, he admits: ]
I think that - I don't really know how to love. There's the love I've seen in fairy tales, all sweet and innocent, but we both learned the hard way that that love can't live long. And then there's easy love, where you flirt and laugh and screw, where it's all safe because neither of you tries to be all that romantic. [ What he has with Bastien. ] But to be earnest, and passionate - [ He shakes his head. ] I've never seen any version of that that doesn't turn cruel.
[ His family. All of his family. Even his parents - When his mother was still alert and engaged, and his father still gave a damn, he saw the way they cut at each other. A thousand tiny slices every day.
And then, a breath out through his nose: ]
Which makes me approximately the worst person for you to be in love with, doesn't it?
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[ He says that passionately. But then, less passionately, more restrained, he admits: ]
I think that - I don't really know how to love. There's the love I've seen in fairy tales, all sweet and innocent, but we both learned the hard way that that love can't live long. And then there's easy love, where you flirt and laugh and screw, where it's all safe because neither of you tries to be all that romantic. [ What he has with Bastien. ] But to be earnest, and passionate - [ He shakes his head. ] I've never seen any version of that that doesn't turn cruel.
[ His family. All of his family. Even his parents - When his mother was still alert and engaged, and his father still gave a damn, he saw the way they cut at each other. A thousand tiny slices every day.
And then, a breath out through his nose: ]
Which makes me approximately the worst person for you to be in love with, doesn't it?