" I smile lightly as they all head into the club, acting as if nothing savage just happened. It's crazy when you think about it. The hurdle of life's abandonment scarring us, we wake up every day in the hope of redemption, that today will be better, but it's a lie. In reality, you have to swim to survive, even if it means drowning the innocent to goet to the shore of hope. "

― M.N. Forgy , The Scars That Define Us (The Devil's Dust, #2)