I was too busy falling in love with you to remember how I felt about Jester, you were here. You were alive, Molly! [ It shook him at the time, which Molly knows. ] I didn't want to lose you, and then I wanted you and I really fucking didn't want to lose you.

It's not just art to me, that's what you can't understand ... and why I'm not getting through to you.

[ Rising with his coffee, he walks to the other side of the kitchen with the breakfast island between them, setting his mug down to fold his arms in an unconsciously protective gesture. ]