"The memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of his words."
"I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running."
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Source: Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.181, Penguin
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