“I believe there are far more possibilities than happily ever after or tragedy. Every story has the potential for infinite endings.”
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“I don't know if I can fix your broken heart, but you can take mine because it's already yours.”
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“Heroes don't get happy endings. They give them to other people.”
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“She wanted to be someone's love, not their curse.”
“Are you pushing for a reason?” Tairn asks.
“Can you give me one not to?”
“He cares for you. That’s already hard enough for him.”
I scoff. “He cares about keeping me alive. There’s a difference.”
“Not for him there isn’t.”
“People die,”
“It’s going to happen over and over again. It’s the nature of what happens here. What makes you a rider is what you do after people die. You want to know why you’re still alive? Because you’re the scale I currently judge myself against every night. Every day I let you live, I get to convince myself that there’s still a part of me that’s a decent person. So if you want to quit, then please, spare me the temptation and fucking quit. But if you want to do something, then do it.”