Red was smiling back at me. "Ok. I'm not in trouble. But tell me your heart didn't start beating for the first time in a month." I couldn't deny it. So I didn't.
This quote encapsulates a moment of vulnerable honesty shared between two characters, Red and the narrator. It subtly conveys a sense of emotional numbness or stagnation that has lingered for about a month, immediately juxtaposed by the reawakening of feeling signified by the heart starting to beat again. This poetic expression of renewed emotion hints at the possibility of hope, connection, or even love slowly emerging from a period of dormancy...