" I wanted to remake myself too. I wanted to whitewash my soul. I couldn't do it before the world ended. Not really. But every day since, I've been trying to be a new person. Not the thing my father made me...no, I wanted to be the man I should have been if the old world had shown me even a splinter of grace. "

― Jonathan Maberry , Tooth & Nail (Rot & Ruin, #3.5)