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“You’re my best friend and I love you. But we can’t always choose what happens.”

“But we don’t know what will happen. We can only hope.”

“Sometimes a piece of news is so good, you don’t want to spoil it with something bad.”

“Sometimes sleep is what you need to get away from your problems for a while.”

“WAR OVER. FIGHTING ENDS. PEACE. I gaze at them. Old newspaper, about the past. But I hope they’re telling us something about the future too.”

“Anya holds Ruby out to me and I take her. I cradle her in my arms, one of the most precious things I’ve ever held. I can’t help feeling sad all of a sudden, thinking about other precious people I’ve held in my arms. I held them as close as I could, really close, but I still lost them.”

“It’s not the blood, I’m used to that.”

“Taking a life instead of trying to save one.”

“[…] but one thing you learn in wartime, you don’t blame a person for trying to survive.”

“Gabriel taught me how when you’re threatening somebody, doing it with a bit of humor makes it even scarier.”

“We were wrong.”

“Shining with all the friendship we’ve shared. And all the love.”

“A fierce powerful promise that we’ll be together again very soon.”

“But everyone has to accept things in their own time.”

“I was holding the hand of a friend then as well.”

“I try to let her see I’ve done this before. That sometimes the scariest choice is the best.”

“You’ll be sick of people taking things from you. You’ll decide that just once in your life you’re going to keep something that’s yours.”

“And now I’m leaving them all behind.”

“I want to tell him that being in it together means trying to keep each other safe. Giving each other good protection. Eve if that means not actually being together.”