We’re bound by chains of love, but they don’t weigh us down. Instead, they allow us to be bigger and better than we are.

Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.

But I miss the woman I was, even as I learn to accept the new creature I’ve become.

Don’t let them see you weak.

If there had been another female for him since we arrived in Salvation, I needed to cut off all her hair and beat her half to death. The strength of that impulse scared me, and I took a step back. Deuce the girl was every bit as vicious as the Huntress, it seemed

Show, not tell, right? Action, not words. You don’t want to hear how sorry I am or how things will be different this time. You want to see it with your own eyes. And until I can show you that, you won’t tell me what I want to hear.

There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.