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.

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.

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.

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.

Some women just aren’t cut out to be mothers, and unfortunately it had taken Susanna three kids to realize she was one of them.

Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.

They think too little who talk too much.

It feels good to know that I am safe and I am loved.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.

I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

Even your pity is like a blast of wind and the words you speak would strip a tree of its blossoms.

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

I hear the howl of the wind that brings The long drear storm on its heavy wings.