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"Don't ever apologize to me. It should be me who apologizes to you."

"They were only humans, playing in the snow, in a house."

"...her best friend"

"I need a win, Liesel. Honestly."

"For a moment, he looked a little hurt, but as always...he gave the right thing to say his best shot."

"...its physicality was like friction---like a stone being gently rubbed across a large rock. It was deep in places and scratched apart in others, sometimes breaking off altogether. It was deepest in regret, and broken off at the end of a joke or a statement of self-deprecation."

"The crowd was itself. There was no swaying it, squeezing through, or reasoning with it. You breathed with it and you sang with its songs."

"But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear?"

"a stranger to kill the aloneness"

the narrator...