“I don’t need to slow down, Iris. If I slow down, I’ll think, and if I think, I’ll never go through with it. I’ll talk myself out of it, like I talk myself out of everything that scares the shit out of me, and then I’ll be stuck. Or worse, I’ll go back to someone who doesn’t even want to actually be with me because . . . I don’t even know why. Because it’s easy, because it’s safe.”
