I would rather be dead than empty

Do the elevators work?" I ask Uriah, as quietly as I can. "Sure they do." says Zeke, rolling his eyes, "You think I'm stupid enough not to come here early and turn on the emergency generator?" "Yeah," says Uriah. "I kinda do.

Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.

I have your back. I didn't mean only when it's easy. All the time.

I used to think that cruelty required malice, but that is not true. Jeanine has no reason to act out of malice. But she is cruel because she doesn't care what she does, as long as it fascinates her. I may as well be a puzzle or a broken machine she wants to fix. She will break open my skull just to see the inner workings of my brain; I will die here, and that will be the merciful thing.

Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.

I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it.