- "if right and wrong is simply someone's opinion, any sense of guilt is illogical and completely unbound from conventional morality."
- "the number of hours we have together is actually not so large. please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it."
- "and in these moments, when he needs her here to ask, wants to tell her that he needs her, that’s when he feels himself slow. that’s when he feels that gaping hole of things left unsaid splinters, and almost, almost swallows him whole."
- "i can’t die yet, i still have sins to atone. if i die now, my beautiful soul will be damned for eternity."
- "but if he could have that moment again he’d tell her that she’s wrong about grief. there’s no neat stages to progress though, no boxes that he’s ticking. it’s everything all at once with no end in sight."
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