though he does not touch me, he steadies me.

We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one.

"You die, I die too.” Tobias looks over his shoulder at me. “I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions."

Evil depends on where you're standing.

You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

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.