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There was, after all, never a stare so blatant as the one that carefully evaded its object.
“We don’t need to know a person to know how to do right by them.”
“Stop believing whatever everyone has said about you for all these years. There’s nothing about you that is unmemorable. The last week has been the most memorable of my life, for Chrissakes. Because of you. Stop imagining that you’re something you’re not.”
“Happiness. That’s what books smell like. Happiness. That’s why I always wanted to have a bookshop. What better life than to trade in happiness?”
“It’s you who don’t see. I only ever wished you to be the man you are.”
She didn’t wish them the life she wanted. She wished them all the life they wanted for themselves.
