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Neither of them means it. We lie to those we love.
“What do you want me to do?” Jim asked, because he needed to be needed.
JIM: I don’t know what to say to that. Sorry. You’d been contemplating killing yourself? ZARA: Yes. So I was surprised when I realized that I didn’t want to die. It came as a bit of a shock.
“Have you ever held a three-year-old by the hand on the way home from preschool?” “No.” “You’re never more important than you are then.”
“My wife used to quote some guy who said… what was it? He said that even if he knew that the world was going to hell tomorrow, he’d plant an apple tree today.”
It wasn’t your fault.
