I can't count how many men I've comforted when their partners were dying and the family wouldn't allow them into the hospital, or the church where they're buried. I'm tired of it... tired of hearing about it. He wasn't close to his parents, he was close to you. Hold your own funeral, say your own goodbye.
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[Flashback]
Do you believe in soul mates?
No. Not only do I not believe in them... it's not even a nice idea.
Not a nice idea?
That there's only just one other person out there for you. What are the odds this person would be in the same country? Or the same city? That their paths would even cross? It would mean almost everyone in the world is with the wrong person. If it's a way of saying, "we're good together", why not just say "we're good together"? But if you mean it literally...
You think there are better people out there for you?
There might be. For both of us. But since we don't know them, it's just a theoretical.
Yes. It's... a sentimental idea. The maths doesn't add up. But... we're by the fire, we're under a night sky. Couldn't you just have said "yes"?
Is that what your soul mate would've done?
But those systems of oppression, as ruthless as they appear, as unbeatable as they seem, never hold, never last, never survive, for we will not live in fear. I would like to finish this particular adventure with you, Daniel Edward Holt. If you'll have me.
I've always taken comfort from the idea that people don't care. That they have better things to think about, that there are more important matters to worry about. I like it when people walk past me and couldn't care less what I'm wearing, or whose hand I'm holding. The place where no-one cares. When I was young, I spent a lot of time searching for it, and I promised myself, if I ever found it, if it ever existed, that's where I'd make my home.
Marcus [Speaking about Alex]:You didn't know, did you? How smart he was?
I knew.
MMarcus
But not really.
Not in the way you did, no.
MMarcus
His partner... without any appreciation of his intellect. Beyond some generalised idea that he was good with numbers. Love without knowledge. Popular culture might depict that as a romantic notion, I suppose.
He never spoke about his work.
MMarcus
What did you talk about?
Everything else.
MMarcus
I see. No, I don't. I don't see at all.
Well, what did you two talk about? Outside of work?
MMarcus
We didn't. Look, try to understand, I was sure, absolutely certain that he was going to change the world in some way. Not my world. The world. Can you imagine the enormity of that feeling? Being in the company of someone like that?
[At Scotty's burial]
I have a question. How do we live without the people that we love? I can hear his reply. "We must figure this question out for ourselves." He's right. He was always right. Except, my friend... I don't want to know. I don't want to know how to live without you. I don't want to figure out how to stop feeling this sad.
GAGuy at the HIV support group
What are you going to do now?
I'm going to do nothing.
A question. I'll permit a question. But just one. [Silence. They sit]That will be all. We both loved him.
Yes.
Can't we pretend, for a while, that's all we need to say? [Silence] There was always something of the mystic about you. Fortune teller-soothsayer, a person who knows nothing, yet sees everything.
Alex was the last person to hold your hand.
Question?
Statement.
Yes. Yes, he was.
You blame me for his death.
Question?
Statement.
Yes. Yes, I do.
How can you blame me... unless you know why he was killed?
It is a good question.
[Flashback]
You must be clearer.
I'll go to America.
You will destroy your research?
I'll destroy it.
You'll never work on it again?
I'll never work on it again.
You'll leave it all behind? [Silence] Alistair, you must never make contact with anyone from this life again. [Silence] Alistair?
His name is Danny.
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