[It's uncanny, how much bitterness she manages to embody in just two words.]
So you don't want me to leave, but it was right for Trevor to? Is that because he told you how stupid this is? Because that's his job, that is what he can do, he sees what you have to be to hold this city together and — and you think it's this and he told you it isn't, didn't he? Because Trevor always knows what you have to be. He always knows. And all I do is coddle you.
[She pauses a minute, swallowing back the lump in her throat.]
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[It's uncanny, how much bitterness she manages to embody in just two words.]
So you don't want me to leave, but it was right for Trevor to? Is that because he told you how stupid this is? Because that's his job, that is what he can do, he sees what you have to be to hold this city together and — and you think it's this and he told you it isn't, didn't he? Because Trevor always knows what you have to be. He always knows. And all I do is coddle you.
[She pauses a minute, swallowing back the lump in her throat.]
And what if you die? What if you die, what then?