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"I let the fact that Charlie is dead flow through my mind like water and the tears roll down my temples and into my hair. I hold a hand over my beating heart and let them come."

"That's when I realise that this isn't the moment I've feared - it's the one she has."

"Charlie's dead and I can't save him. My world shifts and shudders and I'm back there again, with nothing to believe in. Maybe there is nothing to believe in. Sometimes I wonder if you peeled back all the world's skin would it be empty inside? A void. The edges of my vision blur, the black hole threatens to suck me in."

Bad idea Lucy

"I look up long enough to see the sky, now an apocalyptic, violent purple as the sun dips below the road. A bruise so deep I don't think it will ever heal."

"I'm thinking about how translucent life feels."

"Where did he go?"

"And suddenly I'm here, I'm now, and nothing else matters."

"I wonder, not for the first time, why Jacinta doesn't seem to have any friends. Then again, she probably wonders the same about me."

"When I've regained my balance we lock eyes in a moment of relief, and the universe in which I fall branches off in the opposite direction."