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"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."

“I think loving someone and being in love are two different things,” Lyle said. “You can love someone alone, but being in love has to be mutual, and you can never really know for sure.”