““I owed her for reasons I couldn’t untangle yet. I didn’t intend to throw her overboard just because she might be mentally unstable. Fuck, all of us were mentally unstable to a degree. I wouldn’t be a hypocrite and deny otherwise. She was one of the strongest women I’d come across, and she hadn’t spoken a word. That sort of strength…it did things to men like me. It made me want to break her and shelter her in equal measure. It set a war in motion between the devil and angel on my shoulders, and only time would tell what part of me would win. My””
![“I told her [...] that I would bow down before her suffering with compassion, that she could control her life, that I understood that pain is sometimes psychic, not only physical, that she wanted nothing more than to end it and to sleep forever, that for her life was over but that for me it was…” quote by Miriam Toews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e29/miriam-toews-3632_compassion_i-told-her-that-i-would-bow-down-before_2147120.jpg)
![“It made me realize how I needed to stop punishing her for something she couldn't help [...] because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.” quote by Suzanne Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7fe/suzanne-collins-60_catching-fire_it-made-me-realize-how-i-needed-to-stop_3145734.jpg)
