He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done—almost killinng me was one of those thingss—and another list of all the good, heroic, brave things he had not done, and then decided that he was tired. Tired, not just of living, but of existing. Tired of being Al.
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Zum Autor"It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary."
"You're the one who has to live with your choice,' she says. 'Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will."
"I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me."
"But a person can only keep reality - and anger - at bay for so long before the truth comes back again."
"But then he stops at the door frame and says, It's 9:24. Telling me the time is a small act of betrayal-and therefore an ordinary act of bravery. It is maybe the first time I've seen Peter be truly Dauntless."
"Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives."