catriona
@marchand
c2 seviye reading slump
19 kütüphaneci puanı
120 okur puanı
Eylül 2024 tarihinde katıldı
"now you know that you don't want to die either. you're not allowed to, okay? if you die before i come back here, i'll beat you to death!"
"come back here? why would you come back here? aren't you going to live in a big house with someone ordinary?"
"one day maybe we can be ordinary enough, you and me."
Reklam
"what happened to your mom?"
"mom met a man. a kind man. not a mean old bastard and not a fucking monster. just a nice, sober man. he doesn't fight, he doesn't even raise his voice, she always gets to choose what tv show they watch. he buys her flowers every friday. they live a couple of hours away from here now. she called me the other day and said they've started playing tennis. who the hell plays tennis?"
"a happy ending."
"he passed a few years ago. there were only me and mom and a few old guys from the harbor at his funeral. the guys who were left. men don't live long in this town, people usually say, they all kill themselves, fast or slowly. with either a shotgun or the bottle."
"i saw the wheelchair ramp down there. you lived here with your dad after the accident, didn't you?"
"yes."
"you took care of him? despite everything he had done to you?"
"he became a different man. it's hard to explain. he could hardly talk, he needed helo eating, washing, going to the bathroom... but that isn't what made the difference. the real difference was in his eyes. there was no hatred in them anymore. hell, in the end even i didn't hate him anymore. in those last years i called him 'dad' when i fed him. i'd never called him that in my entire life."
"ted isn't going to leave you. if that's why you don't want to sell the painting, because you think he'll leave you and you'll be alone again... he won't do that. ted is really, really fucking bad at leaving people."
Reklam