Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than ever, i need that now.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist.