“I'll fall.' 'You wont fall.' 'I'll fall. I'll fall and I'll die.' As I said it, I could see it happening. The foot stepping on air, pulling the rest of my body with it, tree limbs breaking as I plummeted down. 'No,' he said, his voice assured, 'You'd never do that to me.”
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“Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same.”
“It was you and me, Tom. We did this to them. To us.”
“I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.”
“And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.”