"I don't wanna talk you out of it." That's a lie. She knows it's a lie. Malachite knows it's a lie, too, which is worse. "I... know I can't talk you out of it."

Better.

"But it's okay. We're all messed up. I've done bad things too. I've been awful to you, and you were right. It really couldn't just be fixed by me apologizing and saying things are different now- we really did have to work at it to really understand each other. You can't erase who you were. You can't unmake those decisions. We're stuck with them forever, even when we change. I get that now, but I don't feel bad for it. I learned from it."