Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything

All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

"A name isn't a person." Ga said. "Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they're always with you because they're a part of you."

Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?

. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.

The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.