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“Don’t look back,” she says. Distinctly. Her eyes lose focus, as though she’s peering with difficulty through the disordered drifts of memory into another time and place. Her lips are still moving, but she has run out of words. It doesn’t matter. There is no mistaking her meaning. (p. 359)

SCREAMMMMM

“[He] doesn’t see what’s so great about leaving your mark on things. You have a life and then it ends and you’re dead. Living it is the point, not proving to other people that you were there. The whole thing is really just water pouring down a plug hole, but that’s absolutely fine. Standing water gets stagnant.”