Me Before You

its walls were covered in scenes from the castle up on the hill

“Terrible. Raining cats and dogs.”

Why is this not enough for you? Why am I not enough for you? Why could you not have confided in me? If we’d had more time, would this have been different?

So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt. You changed my life so much more than this money will ever change yours.

Don’t think of me too often. I don’t want to think of you getting all maudlin. Just live well.

Just live.

Love,

Will

“Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.”

“You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”

“Yes. And I’m completely unembarrassed about telling you. I’d be doing night school. I’d be training as a seamstress or a fashion designer or whatever it is that taps into what you really love.”

“Fuck you, Will Traynor. Fuck you. I wish I’d never taken this stupid job. I wish I’d never met you.”

“Don’t say another word.” I was choking. “You are so selfish, Will.
So stupid. Even if there was the remotest possibility of me coming with you to Switzerland…even if you thought I might, after all I’ve done for you, be someone who could do that, is that all you can say to me? I tore my heart out in front of you. And all you can say is, ‘No, you’re not enough for me. And now I want you to come watch the
worst thing you can possibly imagine.’ The thing I have dreaded ever since I first found out about it. Do you have any idea what you are asking of me?”

You have made that time more precious than you can imagine. You stopped it from being an endurance test—”