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"and so i try to be kind to everything i see, and in everything i see, i see him"

WAIT A DAMN MINUTE... WAIT A DAMN MINUTE

"Or were they now other people entirely? And then he would imagine that those people weren't so much gone as they were within them, waiting to bob back up to the surface, to reclaim their bodies and minds; they were identities now in remission, but they would always be with them."

jane thinking andy is a good doctor is soooo embarrassing for her hes a walking red flag jude needs to ruuuuuun

"...one of you plugging into the car's stereo an outlandish playlist.. you would both sing along, loudly, being extravagantly silly as adults the way you never were as children. ... you realized that really, there were very few people you truly wanted to be around for more than a few days at a time, & yet here you were with someone you wanted to be around for years, even when he was at his most opaque and confusing."

DENIAL IS A RIVER IN EGYPT YOUR HUSBAND IS GAY

is happiness illegal

"Friendship was witnessing another's slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person's most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return."

"it was like having a conversation with harold"
"yeah if harold was a white woman with dreadlocks"
"as i said, like having a conversation with harold"
bruh

could do without the graphic detail of how he's harming himself but we persevere i suppose