He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the sun above our heads, are immutable objects, eternal and reliable. If one should fall, who might vouch the sun itself won't fall, burning, into the sea?

The minute we decide that one person doesn´t matter anymore, they´ve won.

I didn't show up here to give your life purpose now that your life's over. That's up to you to figure out.

It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war; it was our fellow humans.

I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.