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You were never really there for him. Not emotionally. You were just the absence he was always striving to impress.
“What? Me?” “You cut yourself off from all sorts of experiences because you tell yourself you are ‘not that sort of person.’”
“How do you know? You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
And it made my imagination do unexpected things; as I sat there, I found myself thinking of things I hadn’t thought of for years, old emotions washing over me, new thoughts and ideas being pulled from me as if my perception itself were being stretched out of shape. It was almost too much, but I didn’t want it to stop. I wanted to sit there forever.
I hadn’t realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn’t predicted. It left an imprint in the air around you, as if you carried its remnants with you when you went.
“Well, you’re a lucky man,” Will said, as Nathan began to steer him out. “She certainly gives a good bed bath.”
“I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen.”
“Some mistakes . . . just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let that night be the thing that defines you.”
knowing that, somehow, from that complete arse I was at the start of this, you managed to salvage something to love is astonishing to me.
I couldn’t bear it. I couldn’t bear the thought that I would lose him, that he was so stubborn, and determined not to see what was good, what could be good, that he would not change his mind.
So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt. You changed my life so much more than this money will ever change yours. Don’t think of me too often. I don’t want to think of you getting all maudlin. Just live well. Just live. Love, Will
Don’t think of me too often. I don’t want to think of you getting all maudlin. Just live well. Just live. Love, Will
