And if I get a little chemically imbalanced in the head, like we all know I tend to get sometimes, and I don't want my parents or brother knowing, Will's like, 'We'll deal with it.' He's never said, 'I'll fix it up.' He just says, 'You're not up to going back to uni to finish your Honours this year? Big deal. There's next year. We'll deal with it.'" She nods. "That's what he does well.

Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect? I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

Because being so dependent on people scares me.

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

You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?

Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.

I'm sick and tired of you people living interstate and overseas from people you want to be with. You're ruining my life! All of you!