"And I'm what?" Suddenly he's close to angry again, a bizarre mixture of defensive and self-deprecating, because he knows it's true, he didn't do a lot of things right, but that could be all the more reason to cut it off now before anyone else gets hurt any worse.

"I can't open up and he can't trust me, and don't you try to feed me any bullshit about love, because love is not enough."