He'd believed it. She couldn't believe that he believed it. Sometimes, she hated him for that.

People of the hundred, " he said, using an ancient Herrani phrase Arin was surprised he knew, "who leads you?"So many cried Arin's name that it no longer sounded like his name.

I want to know everything about you." So he told her. The stars, too, seemed to listen.

You will be lonely, but you'll become strong.

She said, I'm going to miss you when you when I wake up.Don't wake up, he answered.But he did.Kestrel, beside him on the grass, said. "Did I wake you? I didn't mean to.

Yet he understood that there are some things you feel and others that you choose to feel, and that the choice doesn't make the feeling less valid.

A dagger wants flesh, her father would say. Find it.

Ultimately, when he held your treasonous letter in his hand and saw how you had lied to him, the choice between me and you was the choice between someone who loves him and someone who didn't.

When I look at you as if you're crazy it's not that I judge you for your insanity.

Little Fists, what's wrong?

Will you come with me?""Ah, Kestrel, that's something you never need to ask.

Two such as you with such a master speedCannot be parted nor be swept awayFrom one another once you are agreedThat life is only life forevermoreTogether wing to wing and oar to oar

On this life you will act like a scientist, you need to keep experimenting and do some mistakes, but in the end you will find out how to make things so perfect ...

Saving is a great habit but without investing and tracking, it just sleeps

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

To be without a dog is worse than being without a song.

The trust that I once built has been betrayed. But I'd rather live tellin' the truth and be judged for my mistakes, than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised.

For one cannot change, that is to say become another person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one no longer is.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.