“i will stay alive.”
“I had carried on when all I wanted was to be dead. I had stayed alive for other people. I never stayed alive for myself. I cannot begin to describe the intensity of that effort.”
“the object was not to stay alive but to stay human.”
“Its not staying alive, its being alive”
“A man with a sword has a means to stay alive. A man with a named sword has a reason to stay alive.”
“But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.”