I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.

I came here so that no one else would die. I came here to protect as many people as I could. And I care more about Tobias's safety than anyone else's. So why am I here, if he's here? What's the point?

In order to have peace, we must first have trust.

The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.

Which means that in order to defeat her, I have to think of a way to defeat myself. And how can I be a better fighter than myself, if she knows the same strategies I know, and is exactly as resourceful and clever as I am?

Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.