That’s one way of looking at it. I prefer to look at it another way—which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back.

Be careful, though." "Aren't I always?" "No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.

What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.' And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong.

But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.

Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human

Christina,'i say,'The factionless have all the guns.

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.