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“I’d asked you not to come back to New York for me, not to make me choose, but when it came down to it, I wondered if I’d choose you.”

-Lucy

“I thought about how wonderful you made me feel, but also how awful. How you cared so much more about “yourself than you did about us. How in the end, your life was The Gabe Show, and to keep you I would’ve had to play the supporting actress to the star. I know it might be hard for you to hear this, but I’m just telling you the truth. That’s what I thought that day.”

- Lucy

“I have a feeling I was happier than you, because you were the one who left, who wanted to go. Even if you didn’t think about it in those same terms, clearly you were willing to take that risk—to see if you would be happier without me in your life, pursuing the career that you wanted.
Did it work?
Even for a little while?
I know it didn’t in the end.”

- Lucy

“I didn’t write back. I knew I wouldn’t be able to bear it if you ignored me again.”

- Lucy

“You were my comfort and my pain all at once.”

- Lucy

“There’s something about death that makes people want to live”

- Lucy