“How is going on a trip with the woman you so clearly have a crush on a problem?” “Because she could never like me back. She’s bright and beautiful and nothing, nothing like the broken person I am,” I blurt out. “Spending time with her terrifies the hell out of me because I’m inevitably going to screw up whatever… whatever friendship we could try to have. That’s what I do. I ruin things, and I don’t want to ruin someone as wonderful as her.”
