“If I hadn’t mentioned it, you would have asked me why I wasn’t going,” she pointed out. “Then we’d still be right back here, because you seem to want to fix it and I don’t understand.”
“Dammit, you cannot acknowledge something that doesn’t exist!”
”I’m not trying to fix anything.”
”And for fuck’s sake just take the compliment because this is starting to get annoying.” Why was it that people would deny a compliment when they’re given one?
“I can’t accept a lie!”
Why did he insist on continuing to press a statement that simply was not true?