I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live.

Maybe before you die, it's your ghosts you see.

That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.

Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won’t make it home, I’m already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.

Somewhere in the endless spinning of eternity that one, tiny, fraction of a second where our lips met is lost forever.

For a split second, he had looked almost like my Alex again.

I was glad when the Invalids were executed. Some people complained that lethal injection was too humane for convicted terrorists, but I thought it sent a powerful message: We are not the evil ones. We are reasonable and compassionate. We stand for fairness, structure, and organization. It’s the other side, the uncureds, who bring the chaos.