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I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.

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Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

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Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but let go. Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of old things, and days that look like darkness.

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Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.

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Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling back and adjusting.

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This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.

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I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.

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