But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you've done.

Before she got here everything had stalled inside me, and every morning I was just moving toward nighttime.

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.

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.

Well, half of half our faction.' 'In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,' Lynn says.

Nothing else is alright. But we are. -Tobias

He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife?