Flicker in the Night: footnotes

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This is the silence and we are the end.

This is the sadness and

we

are

Things I want to ask you, like late at night when you're listening to music, do you ever find something so good you delay going to bed?

Her mind was in parentheses.

The answer was simple, even though what she had to do was complicated.

I have a theory, but you aren't going to like it.

Did you know as you were falling
how far down you were going?
Was it a controlled descent,
or did you make a mistake?

She's on a different frequency. I thought you knew.

When I'm so sure of destiny, I question sanity.

If I seem distracted, I promise it's not you.

So angry she's calm.

I was a drop in your ocean but you were my sun.

You never had to explain to me—I just understood.

Always the scientist.

Tell me your history and I'll show you where you went wrong.

Sometimes you're the windshield and sometimes you're in love.

Days when she built her own trap door.

She didn't have to pay attention to the song — she lived it.

She wanted to light the sky on fire, but the sea would do.

I wanna breathe your city.

She knew she didn't need him anymore, but she missed his company.

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