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“And the thing about walking on eggshells, no matter how hard it is at first. It’s that
if someone can get you to do it all the time for long enough, you start to just call it walking. You forget the eggshells are there, because they’re always there. You start to think it’s just the way you move through the world. If anything, what you think you
need is to train yourself out of resenting it.”

“There is something warming about the experience of being drunk. It’s a warmth that comes without strength or vigor, but that’s its charm. It’s the warmth of helplessness. A deep surrender…”

“If he knows nothing else, blanked as he is from the amnesia of death, he at least knows that he will always have this. He will always have another half who loves him.”

“A body recovering from hypothermia will gradually
come to understand how much pain it is in as it thaws, and there is no shock colder than death where the flesh is concerned.”