Half of bravery is perspective.

Inquisitiveness is self-serving, Johanna. -Marcus Eaton

To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.

My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn’t belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.

Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too.

This concept could easily have gone awry. Stories about love tend to go that way sometimes. They wander into the realm of cheese and never return, which I think is a shame, because there is a way to write about romantic love without breaking out the Velveeta.

You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.