“It’s a world worth fighting for. Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.”

“Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.”

“I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else--all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.”

“She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls.”

“It's very early, still dark, but outside there's the warm smell of springtime, like things rotting and blooming in one stagnant mist. I realize now that I've always craved the brutality of it. Shoots forcing their way up from the earth, petals popping open.The start of life is always brutal, isn't it? We're born fighting.”

“Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.”

“Rhine. The river that, somewhere out there, has broken free.”