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accepted her humanity and all the failings that came with it. The person who loved her unconditionally. The person whose hand was always there to hold.
It’s like we tunnel ourselves deeper into our aloneness.
I only ever wanted to belong to one person and she wasn’t in that room.
No one, no one really knows loss until it’s someone you love. The deep-down kind of love that holds on to your bones and digs itself right in under your fingernails, as hard to budge as the years of compacted earth. And when it’s gone … it’s as if it’s been ripped from you. Raw and exposed, you stand dripping blood all over the good feckin’ carpet. Half-human, half-dead, one foot already in the grave.
It felt as if someone had lit a fire in my belly when her lips touched mine.
‘it was his very breath, beside me in the room or the next room or somewhere in this place, I didn’t care. It was simply knowing he was there, that meant the world to me. I didn’t need him to do anything other than just be alive. Is it the same for you?’
