"The memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of his words."
"So, when I thought June might take you away, I didn’t know what to do. I felt like she was taking everything that mattered to me. I felt like she was taking away from you all the things that I didn’t have. That’s why I’m sorry. I’m sorry because you shouldn’t have to be everything to me. I had you, but I’d forgotten that I had myself too."
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Source: Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.167, Penguin
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