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“ It isn’t only that he died, or how he died; it is what he died believing. And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”

Ugh this is beautiful

“Jude,” says Dr. Loehmann. “You’ve come back.”He takes a breath. “Yes,” he says. “I’ve decided to stay.”

Beautiful

“There is something very wrong with this world, he thinks, a world in which of the four of them — him, JB, Willem, and Malcolm — the two best people, the two kindest and most thoughtful, have died, and the two poorer examples of humanity have survived.”

Aw dang poor bubs so sad
I get that he hates JB I wonder how much is real I want a JB chunk again

Hello willem and Malcom dead?? What the fuck
I’m scared to keep reading
Sigh this is a rough ride

What an insane gift from ffrom jude to willem
I want a relationship like that wow
This book swings me between wanting to grow up and not at all

Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?

people’s relationships as reflections of their keenest yet most inarticulable desires, their hopes and insecurities taking shape physically, in the form of another person. Now he looked at couples — in restaurants, on the street, at parties — and wondered: Why are you together? What did you identify as essential to you? What’s missing in you that you want someone else to provide?

Damn

Omfg this doctor Traylor ran him over??? What the fuck omfg

To be alive is to worry

Bars

I’m happy that Willem is changing his perspective I like them together
But I’m nervous because I know it goes wrong