Because we will die, but at least we will die unbroken.

That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.' 'No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.

Some things you don't have to promise. You just do.

The harder survival becomes, the more you want to pull together. And the more you want to pull together, the harder survival becomes.

I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and that nothing justified surrender to the forces of destruction.

You can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it

I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite.