Maya/Contacts

“Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.”
---Veronica Roth

Victor	If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled? ---Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
Zach	What would I do without your smart mouth?
Skylar	To make you feel my love...
Derek	A gift from Gaia. Though I wonder if it can possibly be healthy to live in such a prison of self-control and courtesy. It just makes me wonder what hell the boy's been through, that taught him to be so very polite and careful and contained. And what scars lie under the smooth surface.
Riley	A bright-burning kindred spirit, which is the last thing I would have expected to find in one of *them*... And a generous soul, sorely needed.
Shadi	Hijabi hurricane, child prodigy, and I seriously think I'm going grey. This must be some of what it's like to have kids. Although I don't think I was that insane as a teenager. Maybe we can get her parents to hire a freakin' bodyguard...
The kid	So young, to be that scarred. I never thought I had mothering urges, but between Jack and Shadi, they're awake and alive now. If only I could keep them out of danger. But there's no sheltering a warrior, even if he's ridiculously young to be fighting this war. I just wish I could offer healing for that wounded spirit.
Sera	I hope she's enough of a leader to keep them together. I think so. And at least I don't want to jump her.
Sandra	Another gift, albeit a dangerous one. She doesn't quite understand, not yet, but she will. And she'll be a valuable asset and field leader for the loup-Garou. Now, if I can just manage to NOT piss her off again...
Amane	Riley's black-haired friend. She seems so... flawless. Not sure how to relate to someone who's that polished all the time.
Rei	To be watched. An android with an awakened soul? She's just... unnerving.

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The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
---Henry Miller

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
---Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
---Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
---Emily Dickinson