Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.

Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.

My mother told me once 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.

It's what you deserve to hear," I say firmly, my eyes going cloudy with tears. "That you're whole, that you're worth loving, that you're the best person I've ever known.

Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.

My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press.

feel Tobias brushing my hair back before the first simulation. I hear him telling me to be brave. I hear my mother telling me to be brave(...) I am brave.