“Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for something.”

“I've never thought about dying, But dying in the place of someone I love seems like a good way to go.”

“What is a valid reason for someone to love someone else? Since apparently I’m doing it wrong.”

“I wasn't going to be able to fall in love like a normal person. Not when I was bleeding over someone else.”

“It's the thought that counts. I ought to know.”

“The right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So...good luck figuring that out.”

“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... ”