“...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.”
“I alone knew what I had suffered. I alone knew what it felt like to be alive but dead.”
“I knew it, but I knew you didn’t know I knew it, so I knew to not let you know I knew it by acting like I didn’t know it.”
“If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't know you”
“And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak...”
“I knew what I had left behind. The question was: What was I going to find ahead?”