“The best version of me isn’t the person who falls in love, but the person who takes love squarely for what it is, as an occasion to know someone else, to learn about their desires, to be each a better self together, so long as that is what we both want. To hell with all that hurt, whatever came before. We can have a love where we are both happy, in which we see ourselves for who we are–standing there, where any story might begin.”
