Nothing is what it seems

It’s not you, it’s not me. It’s physics.

…and out of the words as tender as petals of a violet, his question arose.

-…could you? Despite everything that has happened… Would you…?

She seemed to be lost in the world of her own.

-It’s not that I don’t love you, because I do. It’s physics. A proton and two electrons is a quantum mechanical problem…