They say that a person's personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn't true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we'd never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we're more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.
Some people accept that they will never be free of their anxiety, they just learn to carry it. She tried to be one of them. She told herself that was why you should always be nice to other people, even idiots, because you never know how heavy their burden is.
You love each other until you can't live without each other. And even if you stop loving each other for a little while, you can't... you can't live without each other.
That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's.