"Yes, sometimes." He hated that part. Life outside the Fade was always so much more complicated than it needed to be. It made people scared just to be alive and that wasn't fair to anyone.

It shouldn't have to hurt, but it did. It always did. That's why he was there.

"But it isn't you. People hurt other people. They try to tear and take because they hurt too. It's all the tangles and the ties tied tight like tying."