And he couldn't know because he hadn't been left with an unkeepable promise, because he wasn't me.

“It pains me to say this, Colin, but if you wish to continue to grow intellectua…”

“Nothing really good will ever happen to me if I stay in Gutshot; and maybe that…”

“You are not a grenade, not to us. Thinking about you dying makes us sad, Hazel,…”

“Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to en…”