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How did I not see it? Pain is everywhere. I'm just another sorry story. All these people wearing smiles, dragging themselves around--do they all know already? Do they realize how fast the world can change?Amy McNamara
2
You can't make anything if you're lost to yourself. You'll want to again, it's who you are. Wren, grieving is hard. Complex. Takes its own time.Amy McNamara
3
I wish I believed him. He's looking at me like he can see where I begin.Amy McNamara
4
Larkin gets it, got it, the lies we live just to tread through time.Amy McNamara
5
And that's just it. This is how it is. Always. To pay attention to things. People. It's too easy to fail other people. And the good-byes. You never have the time you think. It brings tears to my eyes. I blink them away.Amy McNamara
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It's too much to be trusted with someone else's heart. I don't think it ever ends well.Amy McNamara
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I came here because it's pine-dark and the ocean is wild. The kind of quiet-noise you need when there's too much going on in your head. Like the water and the woods are doing all the feeling, and I can hang out, quiet as a headstone, in a between place. A blank I can bear.Amy McNamara