“You have no idea how hard that is for me, Hazard,” she said. “That’s where you’re wrong,” he replied. “I know exactly how hard it is. It’s the same way I feel every time I walk past a pub. You know, we all try to escape life somehow—me with drugs, Julian by becoming a hermit, Alice with social media. But you don’t. You’re much braver than any of us. You meet life head on and try and fight it and control it. Just a little too much, sometimes.”
