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“Then he could go. Every day, he thought about it, and thinking about it made things easier. thinking about it gave him fortitude. And then, at some point, it was no longer an experiment. He couldn't remember how he had decided, but after he had, he felt lighter, freer, less tormented.”
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“He cut himself more and more; he began cutting around the scars themselves so that he could actually remove wedges of flesh, each piece topped with a silvery sheen of scar tissue, but it didn't help, not enough.”
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“He was so tired; he so wanted to stop. Knowing that he didn't have to keep going was a solace to him, somehow; it reminded him that he had options, and it reminded him that even though his subconscious wouldn't obey his conscience, it didn't mean he wasn't still in control.”
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“I used to be like that, too, long ago-- cheerful and unreserved. My treasures were dumb little things and deliriously fun.”
― The Place Promised in Our Early Days
― The Place Promised in Our Early Days
“And yet he sometimes wondered if he could ever love anyone as much as he loved Jude. It was the fact of him, of course, but also the utter comfort of life with him, of having someone who had known him for so long and who could be relied upon to always take him as exactly who he was on that particular day.”
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