Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)

by Veronica Roth

“Find another reason to go on,” I said. “It doesn’t have to be a good one, or a noble one. It just has to be a reason.”

“Soft hearts make the universe worth living in.”

Cisi was smiling. “You know her well. People are harder to sum up when you know them well.”

There was no stitching cloth for the mind’s wounds, real though they were.