"In the time I’d been away, Nick, the former pasta guy, had gone to Italy and returned. I was in the dining room when Maria and Gina were talking about him. Nick had grown lonely and missed his girlfriend. ‘He fucked up,’ Maria said. He will never have a change like this. He’s just pissed away his future.’
‘But he did it for love,’ Gina said.
‘Love? What the fuck are you talking about?’"
—Bill Buford, Heat