“I think they have compatible silences.”

“The had compatible silences.”

“you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.”

“They don’t have silences together; they have noise. Mostly his.”

“This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.”

“Even now, you refused to be pixelated, forgotten, silenced, erased. Not that I wanted to erase you. The opposite. I wanted the opposite.”

“And I, who have never thought in terms of a life, think to myself that I could make a life out of this.”