“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
“The dangers merged into one. Powder and smoke and the gusty flames. The damaged people. Like the rest of the men in the unit, Hans would need to perfect the act of forgetting.”
“Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.”
“Under the damage, he could still see Kitten, surviving despite it all.”
“Here, just like in my own world, popularity was power; survival required the occasional sacrifice of a damaged limb—or a damaged cousin—and alliances were crucial.”
“Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.”