«He is not a bad person for not being in love with me anymore. To say it out loud. To mean it.To know it, true as a toothache. To remember how badly I wanted to have it back, your love. How hard I fought.But in the end, how even I knew. Like how trees knowto let go of their leaves, that nothing can stop the winter.»
- Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, from “The End of It” from her book, The Year of No Mistakes (Write Bloody Publishing, 2013)