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“I told you that I would kill for you, Ira. That wasn’t an exaggeration. I will always choose you.”


“Your selflessness is beautiful, dear, but I need you to put yourself first. Just this once.”

“You’re a field of sunflowers and the iridescence on a soap bubble. You’re sunlight refracting on water and fog settled deep in a valley.”

“We didn’t dare let go of what remained of those we so dearly loved, despite the certainty that this guilt was going to drown us, because this was all that remained. “To release ourselves of guilt would be to forget.
And remembrance was the greatest act of love there was.”

“Because yes, this world, with its seven billion people, really wasn’t perfect, nor beautiful, nor noble.
But Ira Doyle was.
And Ira Doyle was Larkin’s world.”


“A sphere has no ends,” Larkin explained. “When someone says they’ll follow you to the ends of the Earth, that means they have every intention of being at your side forever.”

“Larkin took Doyle’s face in one hand. “Thank you for following me.”
“To the ends of the Earth.”
“Earth is spherical.”
“Yeah, it is.”