He is not sweet or gentle or particularly kind. But he is smart and brave, and even though he saved me, he treated me like I was strong. That is all I need to know.

“I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. (....)He stares at me. …”

“I'm going to stop a revolution,'' I say. I turn right, and Peter follows me.”

“I’m not anyone,” he says. “I’m nobody. That’s what being factionless is.”

“I did not know that my entire personality, my entire being, could be discarded …”