It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.

To remind me, pain is the best teacher

Nobody ever really sees me the way I am, underneath everything. But she did. She does.

It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.” She stops talking and looks out the window. “I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.

After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.

A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted." No, Mabry," Ravus said. "I am not." He looked in Val's direction. "I think she wants to die." Maybe you can help her after all," Mabry said. "You're good at helping people die.

If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.