Then I choose to drown. In hope. Rather than float into noth... - Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock

"It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do."

"Sir Topher finally looked up. “Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared we would drown in it.”"Then I choose to drown,” Finnikin said. “In hope. Rather than float into nothing."

"He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted."