[Wasn't that the nature of dreams? They sometimes turn to nightmares before you wake up and realize how to make them come true.]

It was my choice; you didn't force me into anything. [No matter what he thought, she'd made her own decisions along the way.] That dream gave me something, and someone, to believe in. [And despite, or perhaps because of everything they'd been through it was important for him to understand.] I still do.