A broken pale cup lies beside an unbroken blue cup on rain-wet stone.

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Abby Anderson

You killed my friends. We let you both live, and you wasted it.

— The Last of Us Part II · 2020

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

Abby describes earlier mercy as an opportunity that has been destroyed. Her accusation counts the dead through her own relationships, making retaliation feel personal and justified to her. The confrontation shows how each side can see itself as answering what the other has done.

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  • PolygonQuotation list entry for The Last of Us Part II: Abby Anderson. Literal wording and qualified fictional or written credit; original English edition identified in context.Reference checked

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