“Maybe I was just one of those people who couldn't rest easy unless things went catastrophically wrong.”

“I couldn't help what I'd done before I learned it was wrong. I could only do better in the future.”

“People try to make sense of things, and if they don’t know the answers, they make them up, because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.”

“It’s easy to do right when everything goes right. But let everything go wrong, and see how difficult it becomes.”

“He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.”

“I never felt beautiful unless I was fighting.”

“Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.”