“It's preferable to die than to lose the life.”
“It's better to die free than live life in a cage.”
“It was like someone had died- like I had died. Because it had been more than just losing the truest of true loves, as if that were not enough to kill anyone. It was also losing a whole future, a whole family- the whole life that I'd chosen... ”
“I prefer to die of thirst in my own planet than to be a character more in this sad story.”
“I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.”
“He smiled halfheartedly. Then he frowned. "But isn't it more dangerous than that? In all the stories, they say that it's too hard. . . they lose control. . . people die. . ”