She gave 'The Dream Carrier' to Max as if words alone could nourish him.

A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.

The day was gray, the color of Europe.

I just know that right now, we want to be proud. For once. We want to take the struggle and rise above it. We want to frame it, live it, survive it. We want to put it in our mouths and taste it and never forget it, because it makes us strong.

Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.

That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain.

But neither of us knows, because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it.