Survivors can't always choose their methods.

Mine, ... Mine is what she is.

One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed)

The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.

He had lived a very long time, and only since he gained Anna had he learned to fear. He’d discovered that he had never been brave before—just indifferent. She had taught him that to be brave, you have to fear losing something.

If you could just see your face,” she told me. “You look like a cat in a bathtub.

He sighed. " I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?" "No.