“You don’t just go over to someone’s house as a guest, knock over a precious vase and shatter it into a million pieces, then tell them you want to ‘put this whole experience behind us’. You spend some time diligently cleaning up the mess you made or you buy them the same or better vessel hoping that just maybe, it might make up for a morsel of their grief. Then, they might still be angry at you for destroying something irreparable, but they would forgive you. But only if you try to fix your mistake, not for making it up to them by buying them flowers.”
She was feeling the pressure of the world outside, and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
— The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)








