The Idea of You: A Novel

But I don’t want to miss out on us because I was afraid.”

“You have to be true to yourself. You can’t just do this for me. Otherwise it will eat away at you and destroy you and you’ll resent me. And I don’t think either one of us wants that.”

again I cursed California for having weather that did not mirror my mood.

“But I want to evolve because I evolve. I don’t want other people to choose when that happens for me.”

Love, she said, was not always perfect, and not exactly how you expected it to be. But when it descended upon you, there was no controlling it.