You want me to be all doom and gloom, or just shut up?

“You gave me two alternatives that you could live with, and I chose the one that…”

“Not one of them," he interrupted me quickly, shaking his head. "One of us.”

“Who are you and what have you done with my brother?”

“I didn’t realize I was crying until it was time to say the blinding words. ‘I d…”