Her heart felt too full, a dry creek bed ill-prepared for such rain.

Sometimes scientific discoveries are like that […]. Once people know something is possible, the pace of new findings increases. (Wylan)

Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.

Nina would never let Kaz abandon her. She'd fight with everything she had to free Inej even if she was still in the grips of Parem. Matthias would stand by her with that great heart full of honor.

Nina was about to snap that she didn't appreciate the sarcasm when she saw the expression on his face. He looked like someone had just given him a tuba full of puppies.

If you don't care about money, Nina dear, call it by its other names.""Kruge? Scrub? Kaz's one true love?""Freedom, security, retribution.

You don't ask for forgiveness, Kaz. You earn it.

She rested her head on his shoulder. "You're better than waffles, Matthias Helvar." A small smile curled the Fjerdan's lips. "Let's not say things we don't mean, my love.

Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.

I promise, Matthias. I'll take you home.""Nina, " he said, pressing her hand to his heart. "I am already home.

i prefer to think of the good times. Like when you held my hair as I was vomiting into a bucket.

Ignoring the evils of our history will only cause them to reoccur.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Self-care is a deliberate choice to gift ourself with people, places, things, events, and opportunities that recharge our personal battery and promote whole health—body, mind, and spirit.

Lazy people live lonely lives.

I believe I was born to breed.

It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

Money is information, like bits.

Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.

In painting, whether colour reflection is apparent or not, every hue must echo neighbouring hues, so that homogeneity may be attained.