It was that his downfall had stopped mattering to me at all.

I did not need him to fall.

I needed only to be free of him, and I was free the day I stopped keeping score.

The people who wronged you do not owe you their ruin.

They owe you nothing, in the end, that you actually need, because everything you truly need is on your own side of the wall, in your own life, waiting for you to turn around and go build it.

I turned around.