"Don't let anybody tell you what to do, kiddo," Mick answers, ignoring the way Leonard's counter to his sister sends his stomach into freefall. "And just because you're a guy don't mean you gotta go out and get a girl. There's no rule about it."

And when Mick was alone and honest with himself, he could admit that he didn't want any random woman. Or any woman at all.
What he wanted he couldn't have.
At least not the way he wanted.

"Same goes for you when you're older. Nobody says you gotta go and get a guy if you don't want to."