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“To love someone was to lose them. Whether it was to illness or injury or the passage of time. It was a risk, to love someone. To do so with the full knowledge that they’d leave someday. Then to let go of them when they did.”

“She knew what it was to cling on, to grasp this small fragments of memory and try to live in them. Even if it meant not living at all.”

“Pain doesn’t make a person weak or strong,” she said. “Pain just-is. It’s not a purifier, it’s part of living.”

“She knew how things died.
And in her darkest moments, she feared she did not know how to live.”