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Requiem (2013)
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I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.
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This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience.
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Everything I see and touch reminds me of him, and so everything I see and touch is perfect.
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It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.
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I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.
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I remember Lena's expression when he knocked on the door; and how Alex had looked at her when she finally let him into the storeroom. I remember exactly what he was wearing, too, and the mess of his hair, the sneakers with their blue-tinged laces. His right shoe was untied. He didn't notice. He didn't notice anything but Lena.
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He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.
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The kidnapping, the kiss. I brought him here, after all. I rescue him an pulled him into this new life, a life of freedom and feeling.
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I am now officially married to Fred Hargrove. Nothing will ever be the same.
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Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments. But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.
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Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own.
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The walls are covered -crammed- with writing. No. Not writing. They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over, on every available surface. Love.
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This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to grids, cities to prisons, and hearts to dust.
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We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.
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How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust—and also to make you feel so whole?
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The tunnels may be long, and twisted, and dark; but you are supposed to go through them.
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Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.
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All of you, wherever you are: in your spiny cities, or your one-bump towns. Find it, the hard stuff, the links of metal and chink, the fragments of stone filling your stomach. And pull, and pull, and pull. I will make a pact with you: I will do it if you will do it, always and forever. Take down the walls.
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Why couldn't you let me have it? Why did you have to take it? Why did you always take everything?
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The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me.
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In one of the tents, Julian is sleeping. And in another: Alex
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An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.
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We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.
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We'll go. Her voice is surprisingly deep and forceful. Set in her sunken, shipwreck face, her eyes burn like two smoldering coals. We'll fight.
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I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind — by Alex, by my mom, by time that has cut through our worlds and separated us.
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November 8, 1982
(age 41)
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