They say funerals are not for the dead but for the living. Those rites are what permit you to move on, so if you don't deal with the remains, you can never deal with the memories. That might be true; we may have walked in their dust down on Venice Minor, but it's not the same as a proper good-bye.

With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.

It's only a sure defeat when you stop trying.

There’s a reason I hate jigsaw puzzles. I don’t have the patience to find all the border pieces, especially when they’re all the same shade of gray.

But the world moves on, even when you don't want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops.

I so enjoy it when people assume I'm stupid." "Not that, just very focused on killing.

Dying isn’t like living; it requires no effort at all.