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"Then fall. I'll catch you." — Teófilo

"She had chosen me. Not because I was safe. Not because I was convenient. Because she loved me." — Teófilo

"You are my first choice. You have always been my first choice." — Teófilo

"You are valuable until someone better arrives." — Pangur

"People leave. That was the rule. The only surprise was when they stayed." — Pangur

"I stopped trying to make friends because friends eventually see what you are and leave." — Ed

"I've been the backup friend my whole life. The one who gets called when no one better is available. The one who helps people heal and watches them leave. I'm not doing it again." — Pangur

"I've loved you every day, and I've been too afraid to say it. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." — Ed

"The only thing I was protecting was myself. I was scared. I'm still scared." — Ed

"You don't ruin things. You're just scared. And I'm defensive. And we're both a mess. But the mess fits." — Pangur

"I thought if I loved you, I'd ruin you the way I ruined everything else." — Ed

"Neither of us mentioned what happened. Neither of us would. She would tell herself it didn't mean anything. I was drunk. She was there. That's all." — Ed

"I didn't want to miss a single second." — Pangur

"I'm not going to run again. (...) I promise." — Ed

"I wanted to tell her—out loud, with words, the kind I never knew how to say—that she wasn't disposable, that she wasn't a backup, that she was the first choice, the only choice, the one I'd been choosing for years without knowing how to say it." — Ed

"We didn't try to fix each other. We just promised to keep choosing each other. Every day. Even when it was hard. Even when the old patterns crept back in and whispered lies in our ears." — Pangur

"The alcohol was just permission. The feelings were always real." — Ed

"I wanted to say something. I wanted to say I love you or I think I've loved you for years or Please don't leave, please don't leave, please don't leave. I didn't. I just lay there, warm and terrified, waiting for him to pull away." — Pangur

"I starved myself once. In high school. So no one would look at my body like it was currency." — Claudia

"I thought wanting to be wanted was the same as wanting." — Mabel

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