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Eternity is always where she has been, even if she doesn’t remember. Even when she’s there.

“We, every being in existence, is a collection of good things and bad things. They are independent of each other and cannot be balanced against each other, though we as humans try. The good things do not always soften the bad, and the reverse is also true—the bad things do not invalidate the good things or make them unimportant.”

“There is nothing you don’t deserve,” Rafferty stated as if it were just a fact, not giving compliments. “You are a truly good, decent, honest, caring person, who for some unfathomable reason is messing with things she shouldn’t, all out of a sense of honest compassion that doesn’t exist in this world. Do you really understand you are such a unique thing in all of creation?”

“I think what I’m trying to say is, no matter how long or short your time with anybody is, it’s never forever. You’re going to have to let them go eventually, so that shouldn’t stop you from being with them now.”

“Listen to me, Rafferty.” She licked her lips. “You’re right. I don’t know you really. I mean, I don’t know what you’ve done. I don’t need to. But I can’t be anything other than who I am. I just want to be kind to you, and I know you’ve had too little of it. I like you, Raffie.”