Quote by Katie Cotugno

““I think of how it felt to lose him, slow and painful and confusing, and how it felt to wonder if I'd ever really had him at all.””

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“Kissing him feels familiar but also new, a song they haven’t played on the radio in a really long time.”

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“...as if there's some invisible string that kept us tethered the entire time he was away and that's tightening now...”

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“It felt like he could open up my head and see inside.”

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“Wait, I almost shouted, but didn't, and that would be my burden to bear.”

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“A future as lonely as the surface of the moon and still just the sight of him feels like a homecoming, like a song…

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“I like him so stupidly much.”

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“I know it's only a matter of time before she gets to preschool and starts asking her teacher why today's snack is so shitty.”

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“I just didn't know how to do this, ...the clang and chatter... . And more than that, I didn't particularly want to learn.”

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“There's no limit to the ways that we have managed to fail each other as best friends.”

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“I'm so hugely tired of carrying all of this inside me, all my guilt and anger and loneliness.”

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“...the feeling of standing on the edge of a canyon and screaming, waiting for an echo that refused to come.”

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“...I hate myself for letting him know that I still think about him, that I carry him around inside my skin.”

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