Needing and getting don’t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.

That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on

Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.

I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you." "Why not me?

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.

Verbs. All of them tiring.