" How sweet,” I said, spreading my arms wide to display my bruises. “See how my brother loves me?”
“You’re making jokes,” Ryzek said from just outside the cell. I could hear him, muffled, through the glass wall that separated us. “You must be getting desperate.”
“No, desperate is playing this stupid game before you kill me, just to make me look bad,” I said. “Are you that afraid that the people of Shotet will rally behind me? How pathetic.”
“Try to get to your feet, and we’ll all see ‘pathetic,’” Ryzek said. "

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