To hate people because they hated her first, and then to hate them because of what they've done to her, has created a desire to separate the part of her that will fight back, that will enjoy fighting back, from the part that never wanted to fight in the first place.
-- Arrow (One)

Importance: Arrow here demonstrates the depth not only of her warped relationship with humanity, but her self-awareness as well. The men on the hills have destroyed the only place she's ever known and loved. Before the war, she was a girl in love with life, overjoyed to be alive and filled with hope for a bright future to come. Now that the men on the hills have taken that hope from her, she has allowed the girl she used to be to fade to the background, threatening nonexistence at every turn. At this point in the novel, Arrow is acutely...