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Deep, deepest inside his wounded heart. he felt the new pain, the pain which would now travel with him always.
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Yet the love is there, the love is there — only it's as if it's so wounded it has curled up and gone into a black hole.
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It had occurred, it had happened, and could never in his life be unhappened, never removed, a huge deadly black scar lasting forever.
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A great sword pierced Sefton's heart. She too had loved Lucas with her own kind of deep secret love, and it seemed to her in this moment that, if he had asked her, she would have gone with him anywhere.
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I've felt so sad for years about you. My love for you has always had a sad face.
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I'm afraid I don't know their address, but there it is, when people are gone they're gone, isn't it.
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Why can't you live in the present? You live everywhere but in the present.
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You don't understand what it's like when things are terrible in your mind.
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Is your father writing a book?" said Alison. "No. He's existing. Some people live, like the rest of us, like the people in your plays. He just exists.
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