I savoured every heartbeat, every rise and fall of your chest under my hand, not allowing myself to drift off in case I missed even a moment of this night, which I knew would be our last. I stared at you, your profile vaguely backlit by the
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“It feels wrong that I am the one making the choice, because that isn’t what it feels like to me. It feels like I chose you, and kept choosing you, but over the decades you stopped choosing me.”
― The Midnight Train
― The Midnight Train
“what was love if it wasn’t nursing someone else’s pain as if it were your own?”
― 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
― 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
“On a spectrum of darkness, there was no bleaker shade than grief-tinted guilt.”
― The Elsewhere Express
― The Elsewhere Express
“There was something strangely comforting in the way different cultures had arrived at similar customs and melodies, and in how, all around the world, people were being rocked in the arms of loved ones in their moments of distress.”
― 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
― 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
“I don’t know where the past hides, but I will meet you there.”
― The Midnight Train
― The Midnight Train
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