I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.

Change, like healing, takes time.

You're the one who has to live with your choice, everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will

I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.

In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life.

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

For someone so small, you're heavy, Stiff," he mutters.