“She couldn't find it. That fleeting moment of goodness. People imagined they might reach each other, but it wasn't true. No one understood another's grief or another's joy. People were not see-through at all.”
― Maureen
― Maureen
“Surely it wasn’t too much to ask that you get to the end, and looking back, you don’t fill with horror and bitterness at all the things you got wrong.”
― Maureen
― Maureen
“Forgive me, forgive me, for continuing to live when you are gone.”
― Maureen
― Maureen
“The truth was, she could go where she liked, but she would never get away from herself.”
― Maureen
― Maureen
“It struck Maureen that a person could be trapped in a version of themselves that was from another time, and completely miss the happiness that was staring them in the face.”
― Maureen
― Maureen
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