And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.

"Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

Don't deceive me. Never leave me.

It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.

Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.

I do what I have to do," I say. I do what I have to do to save him. I do what I have to do to save Todd.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.