" You know that I can never be the boy you used to know.”
She pulled away from his hands. “But that’s who I see,” she said. “The only boy I see.”
He closed his eyes tightly. “What I’ve done, and what I’ve seen, will always be with me.”
This was the last time she would make this plea. “Let me, too, always be with you. "
― Julie Berry , Lovely War