“There’s a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.”

“Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.”

“I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.”

“I can hear my brother's voice in my head. Your problem is that you're too emotional.But how can I not be emotional, Rowan? How can I not care?”

“We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes. Buildings collapse. Fires burn. And the next second we're someplace else entirely, going through different motions and trying to keep up with this new person we've become.”

“But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.”

“Tell freedom I said hello.”