“Maybe I didn’t know how to love someone. Not yet, anyhow. Maybe love’s not something you’re born knowing, it’s something you have to learn. It’s something I wanted to learn. I didn’t want to keep hurting people like I had, to keep being hurt all the time. It was too much. Something had to change, something permanent. There was no other choice. Not if all this evil was going to end. Not if life would ever get to be better for any of us.”