Best way to deal with fear is to confront it.

Nine, now eight. Are the rest of you out there?

I'm so sorry, Henri," I whisper in his ear. I close my eyes. "I love you. I wouldn't have missed a second of it, either. Not for anything," I whisper. "I'm going to take you back yet. Somehow I am going to get you back to Lorien. We always joked about it but you were my father, the best father I could have ever asked for. I'll never forget you, not for a minute for as long as I live. I love you, Henri. I always did.

You can't escape what you are, but you also should know what you could be. Why you're fighting.

Did you know Johnny thinks he's Pittacus resurrected?

I don't like bullies. No one has a right to take or to hurt just because they can.

Maybe the only good thing about death is that you never have to relive it. You never have to remember the pain.