Quotes from Stacey Kade, The Rules

What was the point, I had to wonder, of fighting so hard to learn to protect my life if I was destroying it in the process?

It might have been my human side clamoring for blood, or my alien side looking for a chance to exercise strategic dominance over a lesser life form. Either way, I was going to win.

So what did it matter where she came from? Who-or what-her parents were? Everyone's family was messed up in some way including my own. And she was still the same Ariane.

No. Not a death wish. Just very little left to lose.