" I figured it out,” he said. “A reason to keep going, I mean.”
He flexed his left arm, where his first kill mark was etched.
“Oh?”
“Yeah.” His head bobbed. “Something Ryzek said kept bothering me…that he would make Eijeh into someone I didn’t want to rescue. Well, I decided that’s impossible.” Days ago he had looked empty to me, and now full, an overflowing cup. “There’s no version of Eijeh that I don’t want to rescue from him. "

― Veronica Roth , Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)