“I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came… and I was awakened.”

“You leave the phone on beside you as you fall asleep. I sit in my bed and listen to your breathing, until I know you are safe, until I know you no longer need me for the night.”

“I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.”

“All my life, since I came to the Institute, you were the mirror of my soul. I saw the good in me in you. In your eyes alone I found grace. When you are gone from me, who will see me like that?”

“I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.”

“I will rise again, a foe, fierce, bold,
Though dead, though slain, though burnt to ashes cold.”

“I will see you tonight. Or I will see you dead.”

“Not easy to state the change you made.
If I'm alive now, I was dead,
Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.”

“I’ve got your back. Nothing alive will ever hurt you if I have breath in me. And nothing dead will hurt you if I don’t.” (Kisten)”

“i could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. how could skin be that thin? i was so afraid you might drop and break. i stopped breathing so you wouldn't.”