"Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus."

Despair, Desperation, Distress, Emotion, Crisis

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"Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus."

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"But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell."

Ethics

"I can't destroy things so beautiful.""Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something."

Reflection

"The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when 'should be' gets crushed by what is."

Potential

"How do you judge the brightness of a light when you're the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts."

Light

"We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light."

Balance

"Mary believes she was put on earth to bring an end to the living world. Both Nick and Mikey just stared at her."What do you mean end? asked Mikey."End means end. Complete and total destruction. She wants to kill everyone and everything. She wants to bring down every building, burn every forest, empty every ocean of life. She wants to turn the earth into a dead planet ."

Destruction

"I almost told her everything right then. I wanted to tell her about the Wolves, and how I was supposed to hate them, but when you spend your days with evil, some of it is bound to soak into your clothes, like cigar smoke in a closed room."

Evil

"I love you, Risa," he says. "Every last part of me."

Devotion

"With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with."

Manipulation

"Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"Allie considered this. "Meaning?""Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads.""Or tails," suggested."

Insight