Lies require commitment.

That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel.

I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs.

You want him to walk?" Caleb demands. "Are you insane?" "Did I shoot him in the leg?" I say. "No. He walks. Where do we go, Peter?

Drink this," she says. "What is it?" my throat feels swollen. I swallow hard. "What's going to happen?" "Can't tell you that. Just trust me." I press air from my lungs and tip the contents of the vial into my mouth. My eyes close.

If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.