What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.

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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

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You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?

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If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

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She always wanted to believe in things.

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The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.

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All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

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Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.

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Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

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I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.

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