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Did it matter where it started, and would it matter where it would end? Either yes, it mattered very much, because everything was a consequence of something and therefore what became of them was somehow predetermined, or no, it did not matter at all, because beginnings and endings were not as important as the moments that could have happened or the outcomes that might have been.
Your future self will always see what your present self is blind to.
She doesn’t remember his face anymore but remembers the sensation: Am I the girl who stays while others leave?
he doesn’t want to be the person she hides from, he wants to be the person she hides with.
the room itself so small, but their needs were small, too, just each other.
“You should see her work,” he would say the same way someone else might have said: Come outside, come look at the stars.
If this is what it is to burn, he thought, then I will be worth more as scattered ash than any of my unscathed pieces.
“So when people say we’re alone in the ether…?” “Alone in everything. In time and space, in existence, in religion.”
He would never have enough time, but still, he would have to have all of it, most of it. He couldn’t get back the time that he’d missed, but if not him, then who would have all the rest?
