“I can take care of myself, but it helps if I don't have to fight so much”

“Fear makes you do all sorts of strange things.”

“I've never had this kind of scrap with one of our kind, only heard about them. You ever hear about a whole town losing its memory, ships at sea that witness water doing things it shouldn't, like talking, or ever just notice a large plot of land that never changes even though the entire neighborhood around it does? That's my kind fighting in one form or another. Croatoan? That was us.”

“I can take care of myself, but I can’t take care of myself and a child. I’ve decided to give myself up for adoption.
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“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”

“It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.”

“Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'I don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless...”