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“sometimes she felt like saying: would you miss me, if you didn’t have me anymore? she had asked him that once on the ghost estate, when they were just kids. he had said yes then, but she’d been the only thing in his life at that time, the only thing he had to himself, and it would never be that way again.” OH BUT HIM SAYING EARLIER HE HAS A PART OF HER INSIDE HIM OUHHH NOOO

“it was only one-all, and there were still twenty minutes left on the clock. but that was their world then. their feelings were suppressed so carefully in everyday life, forced into smaller and smaller spaces, until seemingly minor events took on insane and frightening significance. it was permissible to touch each other and cry during football matches.” oh so watch me cry this whole section is so len core

“trying to summon an exact mental picture of rob’s face, connell found that he couldn’t: an image would appear at first, whole and recognizable, but on any closer inspection the features would float away from one another, blur, become confused.” LEN’S DREAMS CORE OUCHHH

“the outside world touches against her outside skin, but not the other part of herself, inside.” oh ouch ivory core..

“obviously we’re not going to save the middle east by talking about it at a house party” IJBOLLLLL

“do i still have pupils?” “yes they’re huge” “oh well. they get like that when i see you anyway.” i misjudged your game connell waldron.. was about to say you were pathetic as hell too..