"Another thing he'd often tell me, right up until he died, was: 'I love you'. And it was never an 'I love you' which just rolled off the tongue, he always meant it."
— Jim Hutton, 𝘔𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘦
I'm reading 𝘔𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘦 for the first time and this quote stayed in my head for a while and it made me think that they deserved a different ending...