Why did you do it?" I say. "You want me dead. You were willing to do it yourself! What changed?" He presses his lips together and doesn't look away, not for a long time. Then he opens his mouth, hesitates, and finally says, " I can't be in anyone's debt. Okay? The idea that I owed you something made me sick. I would wake up in the middle of the night feeling like I was going to vomit. Indebted to a stiff? It's ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. And I couldn't have it.

Honesty leads to peace.

I hear my heartbeat. I have been looking at him too long, but then, he has been looking back, and I feel like we are both trying to say something the other can't hear, though I could be imagining it. Too long - and now even longer, my heart even louder, his tranquil eyes swallowing me whole.

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest." --Four in Divergent

There is a reason you don’t know all the things I know. -Marcus Eaton

It doesn't take skill to stand in a place were no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see.