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This entire book is about Eli.

I would do anything for this woman; she was like the other side of my magnet, a force that I couldn't, and didn't, want to be away from ever again.

"But you hate it here," she said. "You'll never be happy here, and then you'll never be happy with me."
I grabbed hold of her hands. "I could be happy with you
anywhere," I whispered
"But the Elysian Fields, your fate," she stammered.
"We decide our own fates, and I'm deciding to stay with you," I said, sparing a glance at the Fate and wrapping my arms around Anna, refusing to let go. I would never let her go again.

"You don't get it," he said between laughs. "Heroism isn't helping someone.
Helping someone is what you do because you're a good person and you want to. Heroics! That's what you do because you want to be liked, you want notoriety and for everyone to think you're the good guy. If you're really the good guy, you don't have to tell people you re the good guy—they already know,"

“You don't understand what you've done to me,"I whispered. "But you will,"