“I would rather be dead than empty”

“I am still the person who would have died rather than kill you”

“Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.”

“He smiles in my memory. A curled lip. Straight teeth. Light in his eyes. Laughing, teasing, more alive in memory than I m in reality. It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.”

“It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.”

“Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.”

“The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.”