“We don’t even understand time, so how are we possibly supposed to understand health, which is a concept we made up? I don’t just feel differently about you—I feel more, a lot more. It’s like you woke up something inside me and it won’t be quiet. It refuses to calm down, and why should it? It’s not like ‘Oh, you make me happy,’ it’s not something as clichéd as that. You make me feel like I’m alive for a fucking reason. Like for once I’m not just a goddamn waste of time.” She paused, slightly winded, with a glance up at him. “If this is unhealthy or obsessive or whatever, who gives a fuck,” she
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