[ unsurprisingly, rachel has always loved his body. she has loved each and every square inch for what it is, but she knows how he feels about it and why. it didn't matter what the doctors said and what the outlook seemed like. rachel never stopped believing he would pull through, and she was right.
but she doesn't say any of these things. it's her turn to listen, and she does. ]
Of course I remember, but I never believed it.
[ there was always more to him than that, and there was always more to her - though if she puts herself in his shoes, thinking of how everyone looked at her as That Girl that lost her dad to cancer, then it's true. you get labeled, catalogued, and it's impossible to move yourself out of that box when you're that age. ] But that's what you're doing. It's what you've been doing for a long time, Noah. [ destroying his body. he doesn't want to get to a point of no return. ]