"You don't know anything about her but a handful of text messages, so stop talking about her that way, Swann, or I swear to God you will never see me again." He knows what she's saying, knows there's an element to truth in it, but none of that has ever struck him as a downside to his relationship with Lorraine - that he has the control of his wallet over her has been something he looked for.
As opposed to what he found with Swann, which he stumbled into, blindly, stupidly, which he should have walked out of and kept his life all the simpler for it.
He wants to throw and slam things, but instead he paces, and even that gesture makes him woozy and stirs the latent headache.
"I didn't mean that you didn't matter to me, but if that's how you want to take it then maybe I'm not going to fight it. Maybe you can just think that. Knock yourself out on it. If all you're going to do is act a martyr and call in what you've done for me like a debt then you're more like my mother than I thought."
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As opposed to what he found with Swann, which he stumbled into, blindly, stupidly, which he should have walked out of and kept his life all the simpler for it.
He wants to throw and slam things, but instead he paces, and even that gesture makes him woozy and stirs the latent headache.
"I didn't mean that you didn't matter to me, but if that's how you want to take it then maybe I'm not going to fight it. Maybe you can just think that. Knock yourself out on it. If all you're going to do is act a martyr and call in what you've done for me like a debt then you're more like my mother than I thought."