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.

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.

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

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.

In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.

To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.

There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.

We are American at puberty. We die French.

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.

When I'm on a break from writing, I'll log on to Amazon and eBay. The doorbell is constantly being rung by deliverymen.

Regrets are so far from reality.