"Stop lying! Stop holding on to someone who is dead and gone. May her soul rest in perfect peace, but she is gone, Zeno. She is never coming back." Why was this so hard for him to understand and accept?
If he was holding on to his dead wife while still living his life normally, it would have been a different case. But he wasn't! He was ruining his life by wasting away in drinks and women.
"Even though you keep on telling yourself that you're satisfied with dreaming of her, and being with her there, it's all in your head. She is no longer real, she will never be real again, it's just a trick of the mind! She is not real!"
"I know that!" He finally roared back into her face. "You think I don't know that? You think I don't know she's gone? Who better than me feels her absence, huh? I know she's gone, I know they're just dreams, I know she's not real, but it's alright. It's not your business because I am fine this way!"
"You are?!"
