Hours later, Adam propped himself up on an elbow and stared down at Gabrielle, pondering what made beauty. He thought he was beginning to understand. It wasn't symmetry of features; it wasn't perfection. It was uniqueness. That which one person had that no other possessed. That which was only their own.

I'd learned a thing or two. Hope strengthens. Fear kills.

It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

-I'm going to kill the kid. - Barrons says faintly. Ryodan makes a burbling sound like a bodly laught. -Get in line

Feelings, emotions - they are neither right nor wrong. They cannot be assigned a value. Feelings *are*. By labeling a feeling wrong, you force yourself to ignore that feeling. And what you most need is to feel it, let it burn through you, then get on with life.

The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.

Turn it off," Ryodan says without even looking at me. "You're distressing Dani. No one distresses Dani but me.