They Both Quote At The End

bot tweeting quotes from THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END by @AdamSilvera. back at it again thanks to @gimmickbots

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No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.

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"We were going to die before we knew each other," Mateo says.

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I have to visit Dad, even if he's unconscious. He has to know I made my way to him before I died.

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"I miss when I was so young I didn't know to be afraid of death. I even miss yesterday when I was paranoid and not actually dying."

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If we had our entire lives ahead of us I bet you'd get tired of me telling you how much I love you because I'm positive that's the path we were heading on. But because we're about to die, I want to say it as many times as I want-I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you.

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Twelve hours ago I received the phone call telling me I'm going to die today, and I'm more alive now than I was then.

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RUFUS
8:47 p.m.
I wake up choking on smoke.

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"I get it. But walking? I got this."

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Who put down ten dollars I'd find myself on Instagram on my End Day? Because you're now ten dollars richer.

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"We should do the funeral," Tagoe says. "But take your time. It's your day. Sorry, it's not your day, it's not like a birthday, it's the opposite." He twitches. "I'm gonna get everyone in here." He steps.

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"I wish we had more time... I wanna ride bikes through empty streets and spend a hundred dollars at an arcade and take the Staten Island ferry just to introduce you to my favorite snow cones."

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I'm Rufus Emeterio. I was Mateo's Last Friend. He was mad brave on his End Day.

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I return my attention to the video, his voice blasting in my ears.
I cross the street without an arm to hold me back.

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the deeper we go into the park, the quieter I get because of pure wonder, especially as we stumble onto a bronze sculpture of characters from Alice in Wonderland.

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I collapse back onto the floor, thinking about how it's do or die now. Not even that. Do, and then die.

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Rufus squeezes my hand. "Take me home, Mateo."

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I don't know how Keith died. I don't know if Turbo made it out alive or if he died with Keith. I don't know what would've been preferred for Keith or Turbo.

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I gotta meet the man who raised Mateo into the dude I fell in love with in less than a day.

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"I sometimes forget their voices," I say.

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We go inside the Open Bookstore. I love how the store name is hopeful.