"As Ray Porter watches Mirabelle walk away he feels a loss.
How is it possible, he thinks,
to miss a woman whom he kept at a distance
so that when she was gone he would not miss her.
Only then does he realize
that wanting part of her and not all of her had hurt them both
and how he cannot justify his actions
except that... well... it was life. "
Steve Martin as Ray Porter
Shopgirl, 2005