And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any of them.

I'm scared to die," I whispered as Michael walked in. "He was scared to live," he said kissing my forehead.

I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.

And then you came along and you spoke to me and nobody had looked me in the eye for years. (...) But I remember you that day and you looked at peace with yourself and it made me reconsider everything I had planned to do. Because I thought to myself, you can't do this to her, not after the Hermit thing." "Do what to me? I don't think leaving me on that platform would have changed my life, Griggs," I lie. "You being on that platform changed mine.

I ran away one day. He was running in the same direction.

Do you think I don't want him to be gone more than you do? I do. Because I need to know that I can still breathe properly when he's not around. If something happens to him, I have to know that I won't fall apart.

Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?