When you live for the fight, for the blood, the relationships you form are tenuous and easily broken.

Please don't run away. And, um, I'd rather you didn't kick me again either.

Do you have a multiple personality disorder?

You know, Jacob, if it weren’t for the fact that we’re natural enemies and that you’re also trying to steal away the reason for my existence, I might actually like you.

The rains would end, and when they did, Ian and I would be together, partners in the truest sense. This was a promise and an obligation I had never had in all my lives. Thinking of it made me feel joyful and anxious and shy and desperately impatient all at the same time—made me feel human.

I'd forgotten how exuberant you are

Just because you want something to be true doesn’t make it that way.” -The Host