What can't you bear?'' This island, ' Gabe says. He breathes a long pause between every word he says. 'That house you and Finn are in. People talking. The fish - goddamn fish. I'll smell like them for the rest of my life. The horses. Everything. I can't do it any more.'.. . It feels like he's confessed that he's dying of a disease I've never heard of, with symptoms I can't see. Maggie Stiefvater
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This quote is from New Moon by Stephenie Meyer. In this quote, the main character, Bella, is having a conversation with her boyfriend, Edward. Bella has been living on a small island with him and his family for four years. She has grown to love everything about the small island and the beautiful lifestyle they have there.

As time goes on, she becomes more and more afraid of leaving the island and moving to a new city with her mother and stepfather because she doesn't want to leave behind her friends and family in Forks. She asks him why he wants to move away from the only life he's known. He then explains that he can't bear to leave It.

The house that they live in, the people who live there, the animals that live there, all of it. He says things as simple as knowing that half of his townspeople will be strangers to him after he leaves.

Source: The Scorpio Races

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