“Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.”

“Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.”

“Everything is in the process of becoming something else. It’s the law of change.” I briefly kissed Livvie’s eyelids before she could open them. “I’m in the process of becoming something else, Livvie. I hope it’s something good, something far removed from the monster you knew.”

“The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.”

“For as soon as something becomes impossible it slipslides out of belief entirely, whether it’s true or not.”

“Marcus DeLuca had to be a dangerous man because I was caving in too soon; it was just too soon to feel this attachment, to feel and want him so desperately. When something seems too good to be true, it’s exactly that. - Mia”