"I looked at her, exhausted in the hospital bed, and she looked at you, and yo..." - Garth Risk Hallberg

I looked at her, exhausted in the hospital bed, and she looked at you, and you looked at me looking at her with eyes that had never known anything else, and for a moment there I swear we saw each other with a clarity that nothing can alter, not time, not heartbreak, not death.

— Garth Risk Hallberg
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