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

Well, I already know what happened to my face", I say. "I was there. Sort of

I don't want to try to live up to someone who's created something so incredible. I'm just trying to focus on what I'm doing and what I do best. It's sometimes hard to focus in and only think about my books rather than how they measure up to someone else's.

We're all right, you know,' he says quietly. 'You and me. Okay?' My chest aches, and I nod. 'Nothing else is all right.' His whisper tickles my cheek. 'But we are.

I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.

Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life