She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.

I killed her once and died for her many times

If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.

You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person.

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want when you are older.' After that, the thing that scared me was not so much the motorcycle itself, but that I could turn into a person who would want one. I was scared of the idea that I could become an entirely different person, a stranger to myself.

She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.