She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.

Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.

Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.

Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

They think you can't feel anything, because they've forgotten how. You're very, very dangerous, I get that, and you're prone to some very theatrical brooding, but don't let yourself mistake that for some kind of inner corruption. They see themselves in you and are blinded.

That’s family for you. Can’t live with them, can’t murder them.

You in trouble?” Sam asks. The way he says it, I wonder if he’s thinking about how to get out of here if I am.