I push everyone I love away." He shrugged. "I don't mind you pushing me away if it means you love me, little sister.

It humbles me, but it doesn't humiliate me.

There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life.

I must stop wishing for things to happen. Because something will happen eventually, and when it does, I'll be bound to wish it hadn't.

While I was looking the other way your fire went out. Left me with cinders to kick into dust, what a waste of the wonder you were

You have a wound too, Papa." Hanna took Brigan's left hand, which was wrapped in a bandage, and inspected it. "Did you throw the first punch?

What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.