Character: Theodora Avery

Immortality - a gift?... Or a curse?

Eternity not only takes away. She also gives. And yet... it's hard to be grateful.

Fate is a damn villainess who likes to mock people.

Music does not care about nationality - it equally touches an American, a Belgian, and a German.

Folding my arms, I felt my own goosebumps. Just one thought: what if I had died then? No lost, no wandering. And ... Nothing - with John. I would have died without seeing the Pyramids. Without visiting a real Chinese tea ceremony. Not knowing how to say “thank you” in Greek - efcharisto - all their words sound like the names of gods. I would not have caught another world war, the assassination of Martin Luther King, the Chernobyl disaster. I wouldn’t have looked at Niagara Falls, I wouldn’t have known that people will find a way to cure cancer, I wouldn’t have cried looking at the northern lights, I wouldn’t have heard the Beatles. All this: bad, good, black, white, colorless, bright, unfair, delightful, broken, whole, dead and alive... Twisted, merged, grappled with each other as a rushing horse, an endless wind - a tornado. And I exhaled, letting him pick up the pieces of my heart, as if they were not heavy with the pain of loss and fatigue, were not filled with despair. As if they were translucent autumn leaves.

- I also tried for a long time to prove to my parents that I was worth something. But then I realized that the main thing is what you think about yourself, and not others. You don't have to prove anything to anyone. You will understand everything. I believe in you.

I thought I could hide from the past. From the secrets that surround me. From who I really am. But, of course, it doesn't work that way, and it was foolish to think that I could get away with it. Silly, but I don't regret it. I don't regret opening up to you. That I trusted - as much as I could. We were given little time, but I promise to remember every second that I spent next to you. I ... felt happy - for the first time in many years. Thanks to you. You are an amazing person, Blaine. You have so much warmth and so much kindness. Please don't hide it from the world. Even if it's scary. I wish you happiness. And thanks. Thank you for teaching me to see the light again.