Status Updates From Fifteen Right: Part I

"For the first time in Bren’s life, he wondered if things might possibly happen for a reason. Some greater reason than all the deplorability and inability to do better."

"She wasn’t part of any equation. No question being answered would give the answer. She was the formula to find the solutions. That was what she was."

"She was just . . . numb, from being so cold. That ice wasn’t forced or trained. It was who she was."

"There was absolutely nothing physically wrong with her, but her perception of other’s perceptions and an inability to handle it had damaged the entirety of her person."