Tear Jerker / Those That Wake

• Laura pleading with her own parents as they're unable to recognize her.
• Laura's description of her nightmare in the first book. She had to leave her parents behind to swim out of the darkness.
• Mike's speech to Laura and Mal about how fighting and never giving up hurts.
  "You talk about fighting, about going on no matter what, like you know it from the movies or something. It's not all cool and dramatic. It sucks ass. It's what happens when everything you care about is gone, when you have to face the worst things about yourself and you still keep going. It doesn't feel impressive and powerful when you're doing it; it just fucking hurts. Do you know that?"
• Mike telling Laura that to make her parents hopeless, Man in Suit took away the one thing they couldn't live without: Her. Laura herself starts crying when he explains it.
• Those That Wake has Mal being unable to move to save Tommy and Annie. The sequel gives him a complex over this.
• Laura's letter to her parents at the end of Those That Wake.
• Mal and Laura's reunion in What We Become, as well as Laura's horror at her memory modifications.
• Remak's sacrifice to save Mal halfway through What We Become.
• What We Become has Laura and Mal's conversation before the climax, and Mal's admittance that Laura was his only source of hope for anything in the world, and even happiness was a foreign emotion to him except when near her.
• Mal's sacrifice to save Laura at the climax of What We Become.

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