[The word coping is an elegant, passive way of saying that there's no other choice. And there isn't - not really, not here, where the deaths don't even count and passing the time is like watching an hourglass funnel an infinite number of grains of sand into a neat little pile.
Nothing changes except for the people, even if they don't change for good.
Then there is the question of wanting. There are so few opportunities to be genuinely happy in the real world that finding anything close to it in Wonderland is nothing short of a miracle.]
...the only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
[Exhaling shakily, she squeezes his hand back in relief. Hang the danger and throw caution to the wind. It isn't just Evelyn's stubbornness in the way, either.
Determined to find good - actual good - in this place, facing something that has the potential to backfire horribly and refusing to back down might be just enough of a push to lend strength to someone else.]
I know the consequences, and I've accepted them. Can you do the same?
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Nothing changes except for the people, even if they don't change for good.
Then there is the question of wanting. There are so few opportunities to be genuinely happy in the real world that finding anything close to it in Wonderland is nothing short of a miracle.]
...the only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
[Exhaling shakily, she squeezes his hand back in relief. Hang the danger and throw caution to the wind. It isn't just Evelyn's stubbornness in the way, either.
Determined to find good - actual good - in this place, facing something that has the potential to backfire horribly and refusing to back down might be just enough of a push to lend strength to someone else.]
I know the consequences, and I've accepted them. Can you do the same?