The night before her wedding, Daisy taught me that after the world ended, you still had to get up in the morning, and the things that you ruined would still be there, needing to be fixed. When I looked at famous Jay Gatsby, soul gone and some terrible engine he called love driving him now, I could see that for him, it was all a wreck and a ruin, and he had no idea why the rest of us weren't screaming.
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"When you can't fix a thing, the best course of action can be to ruin it all so that no one can see what truly happened."
Nick laughed, and I wondered if that was what love was, making someone forget the pain that gnawed at them and would not stop.

//Nghi Vo, 2021, The Chosen and the Beautiful