#p235

"You have a house if not a home," she spat. "You have people who care for you if not about you. You may not have everything you want, but I'd wager you have everything you could ever need, and you have the audacity to claim it all forfeit because it is not love."

"I was so afraid of losing them, I forgot that love isn't a blaze you feed by only kindling your strengths. It demands your insecurities, too. It demands faith."

"The ultimate fantasy, that. Games offered a dimension where one's mistakes had few, if any, permanent consequences. If only someone could reset the levels of her life, she thought. The changes she'd make. The princess she'd save."