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

His face held a certain impassivity; you see it in all waiters and valets. They might want to jam a knife through your left eye socket, but you'd never know it from their expression. Working retail, I've acquired a similar look myself.

Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.

He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad.

People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had

As I dive between the legs of a big Gunnar, I see Mair wind up and slam her shockstick hard as she can between the V of another guy’s thighs. Falling, he makes a noise that I can’t say I’ve heard a human utter before, sort of like I imagine a puppy would sound being put through a juicer.

People try to make sense of things, and if they don’t know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.