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“The real sorrow of human life is that we feel. That’s our affliction. That’s why I wanted to walk for months on a trail through the woods. The world and its people are too much for me. I am crushed between empathy and impotence. I don’t think I’m important - not at all. In fact, I am embarrassingly insubstantial. Then why was I given this heart? It is so much more than I need.”

“Your love dug me a kind of trench, a groove in the universe where I still go to mourn.”

“Thank you for being conflicted. . . . Thank you also for playing make-believe. For allowing me to think that the universe was hospitable and people decent and death distant. Even when you knew that someday I would consider these ridiculous illusions.”

This book is tremendously sad and not at all what I expected. It’s a really beautiful story but I would have waited until I was in a better headspace to read it if I would have known what I was in for!

Stretching it out and out because I don’t want it to end