[Isaac finds himself shaking his head at that, trying to figure out how to form the words.]
No- Derek gave me a choice. Your girl, Christina, she... [he doesn't know how to put this delicately. Isaac doesn't look down on her, of course, he doesn't even know her and he understands Peter's empathy and attachment to her memory. But that doesn't mean he agrees with their situations, with his survival being praised merely because she didn't.]
-survival was an option for her. I don't mean that in a bad way, but saying anything about me because I did doesn't mean anything because I had to. When- [he swallows hard, his jaw tense,] -when you're trapped, the only thing you can bear to think of is getting out. There is no giving up. There's just- taking, enduring, and you don't even know why because you know there's not light at the end, but you can't- you can't stop being.
You say she was creative, smart, but she was trapped by society. [Isaac shrugs.] That was her choice. The bars there weren't real.
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No- Derek gave me a choice. Your girl, Christina, she... [he doesn't know how to put this delicately. Isaac doesn't look down on her, of course, he doesn't even know her and he understands Peter's empathy and attachment to her memory. But that doesn't mean he agrees with their situations, with his survival being praised merely because she didn't.]
-survival was an option for her. I don't mean that in a bad way, but saying anything about me because I did doesn't mean anything because I had to. When- [he swallows hard, his jaw tense,] -when you're trapped, the only thing you can bear to think of is getting out. There is no giving up. There's just- taking, enduring, and you don't even know why because you know there's not light at the end, but you can't- you can't stop being.
You say she was creative, smart, but she was trapped by society. [Isaac shrugs.] That was her choice. The bars there weren't real.