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“Maybe it’s because he hasn’t had a cigarette for a week. Maybe it’s because he’s seen Anabel and his mum and spoken to Georgie. Maybe it’s because Tara Finke is his girl, but all of a sudden, Tom feels as if he can breathe properly for the first time in a long time.”

“Am I worth the hard w —?”
“Yes,” he says before she finishes. “Yes.”

“You do that all the time, you know. You ask me questions when you know the answer will piss you off. Ask me a question where the answer could be yes? Ask me if you’re worth the hard work? Ask me if in the last seven years of my life I’ve woken up in a cold sweat knowing I lost the most important person in my life apart from this kid I’m holding?”

“Because smart guys have two brains, Will. One in their head and one in their pants.”

“Yeah, well both my brains are connected and one is always reminding the other of you.”

WILL TROMBAL.

“Every word she mutters or writes to him is a reminder of what he lost and what he needs to get back, somehow.”

“...grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.”

“I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.”

“And that was the problem with Dominic Mackee. That he could promise the meaning of life with just a look in his eye and a tone to his voice. Tom would have followed the bastard anywhere.” Ah, the title

“He doesn’t know where it comes from, this grief. How it blindsides you.”

“He’d be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.”