“He has to take me as I am, broken bits and all.”

“He is not the same person as when wemet, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.”

“He’s worth fighting for, but I won’t change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.”

“If there had been another female for him since we arrived in Salvation, I needed to cut off all her hair and beat her half to death. The strength of that impulse scared me, and I took a step back. Deuce the girl was every bit as vicious as the Huntress, it seemed”

“That she could smile while I hurt in ways I could not understand—it broke something in me. I did not understand the heart of her, then. She is made of brightness, too much for sorrow. Such a glad spirit—I am humbled now that she shared it with me.”

“There’s nothing he can do here for me, but I hate that he left.”

“We’re both so fucking broken that I understand our strange attraction, a push-pull magnetism born of similar scars.”