The Choices We Made
"Samantha has avoided me for so long. Does she really not want to see me? Since she truly loved me, why couldn't she tolerate me a little more?"
"It was exactly because she truly loved you that she couldn't tolerate those things. If she had only pretended to love you, she could have tolerated them," Evan explained.
"All these years, you killed the Samantha who loved you over and over again. No matter how strong her will to live was, she died that summer when you tried to take away her attending doctor, Dr. Dyson.
"So stop thinking she'll turn back. Even if she comes back, it will be to stab you, not to make peace with you."