Do you think there was a part of you that imagined the two of you would somehow end up together?

The look on her face, a kind of juddering visceral alarm at what has been said, I don’t wish to see that look many more times in my life. I hurriedly begin another question. “No, I said it would make me too sad to answer but it’s also…” and she nods even as her voice breaks once more with tears “…one of my favorite things to imagine.” And through the tears, a beaming, almost beatific smile stretches room-wide across her face. “It’s actually one of my favorite places to visit.”

~ Michelle Williams, GQ February 2012