The way to LOVE anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

As Ray Porter watched his Mirabelle walk away, he feels a loss. How is it possible - he thinks - to miss a woman whom he kept at a distance so that when she was gone he would not miss her. Only then did he realise how wanting part of her and not all of her had hurt them both and how he cannot justify his actions except that well... it was life.

Script from Shopgirl, by Steve Martin.

Ella