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"The worst part about dying isn’t the actual dying. I don’t even have to try for that. No, the worst part about dying is trying to figure out how to leave the ones you love."

"The drugs don’t just change you, they take away every bit of yourself you have left. They were taking away the small core of humanity I could still feel inside me. I stopped taking them whenever they weren’t forced down my throat, even if that meant I had to fight the part of me that wasn’t human. When I was alone, I found myself screaming:Get out! Get out of me!Maybe to a demon, maybe to the virus, whatever it is."

"Consciously—quietly and personally—I chose love. To consciously choose love, I feel, is the strongest declaration of your desire you can make.[...]I chose to
find a balance. Equilibrium is love. Love is equilibrium. Love—at least my kind of love—is an attentive, conscious choice."