“He gave his mother one last lingering look. All the things he still wanted to say, he said it with it. All the I love you’s addressed to hallway ghosts and all the I wish you were here’s screamed into the silence of his own head. He would never see her again. He would never see Tommy again. Those were the truths he would have to learn to live with. All that grief and love and hope and fear in one word. “Goodbye,” Wilbur said.“ - passerine chapter 7 Inspo: