​. . . it points to something much more frightening — ​that love itself exists outside the framework of justice. There is no court at which to plead your case, no authority who can grant you recompense.

​This is a terrible thing to contemplate, and naturally the mind rebels. After a particularly surprising break-up we all prefer not to know this, just as we prefer not to know that the person you loved does not love you back. Not enough to stay, and in your case not even enough to be gracious as they leave. This knowledge is a rupture, and so we grasp at the fiction of closure.