If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.
Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever.
We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?
We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.
Is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. It was more than that. I know it was more than that.