We failed love.

Your heart can break a thousand times, but never
more than once for the same person.

.....

He wouldn't say goodbye to Maia now, just as he hadn't
four years ago. It turned out that Janet was right. His heart couldn't break
again over Maia Morland, but the crack she had created still ached. Leigh saw
that he would spend his life saying farewell to Maia, the way one might to a
childhood dream.
If he was lucky, he'd come to see it clearly. And that
ache would no longer be for a first love or a lost one, but for a memory, full
of pleasure and regret.

-- adapted from After The Moment by Garret Freymann-Weyer

It's sad when we turn in opposite directions at the sight of each other. Sad that we can't just walk towards the centre of the carriage and say hello like old friends. Sad that the ache hasn't gone away.

Maybe I don't want to doubt you, but it's hard to believe. Like you would believe what I say.

I can just hope, for the broken glass to be pieced together again, even if held together by glue. It probably won't be able to contain water, but I'd never want a new glass, for it never is the same.

The scratched surface, with all its chips and dirt, are what makes the glass mine, beautifully mine. I'd never trade it for another.