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“I had rehearsed, losing him, not just to ward off suffering by taking it in small doses before hand, but, as all superstitious people do, to see if my willingness to accept the very worst might not induce fate to soften its blow. Like soldiers, trying to fight by night, I lived in the dark so as not to be blinded when darkness came.”

“is there anything you don’t know?”

“I know nothing, Oliver. Nothing, just nothing.”

“You can always talk to me. I was your age once, my father used to say. The things you feel, and think only you have felt, believe me, I’ve lived and suffered through all of them, and more than once— some I’ve never gotten over and others I’m as ignorant about as you are today, yet I know almost every bend, every tollbooth, every chamber in the human heart.”

“To look up and find you there, Oliver. For the day will come soon enough when I’ll look up and you’ll no longer be there.”