Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru

 

"When you fall in love young, you imagine that the object of your desire is both finite and infinite, a magical and unfathomable creature who you will also be able to know completely. I wanted to crack Alice open like a geode, to expose all her crystals, her stars. It was hard to accept that she had anything in her life that didn't concern me; it made no difference that I was hiding parts of my life from her."