Paul was aware he felt mysteriously less interested in her after reading that she felt like she missed him and realized he hadn't considered what a relationship between them would be like: probably not sustainable, at all, due to a mutual lack of strong interest. [50]
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Since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in. [127]
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You seem to encompass major things of what I want, in ways I feel like only segments of other people...have. [174-175]
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"When we couldn't talk, I felt like I had to talk," said Erin descending stairs. "But I had nothing to say. I just felt encompassed by the limits.” [193]
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Lying on his back, on his mattress, he uncertainly thought he'd written books to tell people how to reach him, to describe the particular geography of the area of otherworld in which he'd been secluded. [247]
