“So this is everything you hoped for?”
“It’s got its ups and downs,” To Ellie, the giraffes symbolize life worth fighting for.
“But you can’t deny the view though.”Certainly, there’s a real sense of reconciliation here. Ellie and Joel have spent the majority of the game fighting against a disease borne of nature, yet throughout the game they’ve had to rely on nature in order to survive. If one views The Last of Us as a love letter to the landscape– which, considering the game’s loving attention to environmental detail is not an outlandish interpretation – the giraffes would be its most passionate sentence. (x.) (insp.)
The thinning line between you and my sanity is quickly fading.
Everyone I have cared for has either died, or left me. Everyone fucking except for you!
The thinning line between you and my sanity is quickly fading.
❝ Back in Boston – back when I was bitten. I wasn’t alone. My best friend was there. And she got bit too. (…) Her name was Riley and she was there first to die.”