The Fallout

Her relationship with his control, intact or gone completely, was one of love and hate, depending on her mood – and that counted for outside the bedroom, as well.

“A prat with sexy toes, apparently.”

Perhaps, at the end of all things, it was the love of yourself and your own strength that forced you to keep pushing for life. When life, and what it was made of, begins to leave, you are only left with yourself.

Numbers don't matter. It's just time. But time is everything - time is their existence.

But that's the world. Our connections with people. That's the measure of our lives. Of who we are and what we leave behind."

She does need people to need her, and to count on her for things. This is the way she finds acceptance in the world. She depends on other people's dependence -- for her skills, her smarts, her friendship. She has always judged her productivity and her importance by this.

"Maybe, Granger, it's time for you to stop judging your worth by how much other people need you."

"If we weren't scared, we wouldn't be human. People can die all the time -- that's not just war, it's life."

It takes a certain sort of person to deal with you, do you know that? Most men don't want to date you, because you're intimidating."

"Then maybe you should let go of me."

He smirks, dipping his head. "You don't scare me, Granger."

How if it's sixty degrees outside at night in the summer, we think it's kind of nice out. But on that same summer night, if you walk into a restaurant that sixty degrees, we think it's freezing."

Hermione shrugs. "Humidity outside -- that plays a factor. And it's expectations. We know we're exposed to the elements outside. Inside, we expect to be more cocooned."

"Sort of like people." At Hermione's confused look, Cho continues. "People are harder outside, their facade, because they know they are exposed to the world there. But they don't let people in easily, because they want to be cocooned there. They want to feel safe, at ease -- not like they have to prepare for the next storm or drop in temperature. You know?"